Description

CIRENCESTER

SP0301 BEECHES ROAD
578-1/6/11 (South side (off))
04/07/75 The Old Mill House

II

Formerly known as: New Mills BEECHES ROAD.
Mill house. Mill said to have been founded on this site 1530;
present mill house retains some probable C16 work in much
altered wing to right, late C18 and C20 alterations and
additions to main range.
Coursed squared limestone rubble, gable facing to right cement
rendered; stone slate roof, hipped and with catslide to right,
flat felt roof to wing to right; rendered stack on gable
facing to right, rebuilt stone ridge and right-end stacks on
rear range, brick stack in valley of double-pile main range,
tall brick stack on gablet to rear.
Double-pile main range has gable facing to right where it
previously joined mill, now demolished, which projected
forwards over mill stream to form L-plan; earlier wing to
right of main range.
2-storey 3-window main range has C19, 2- and 3-light casements
to first floor; one C20 window and one late C18 6/6-pane sash
to ground floor, late C18, 9-pane half-glazed door within C20
extension to right; gable facing to right has two 2-light
timber casements to first floor, two C20 windows to ground
floor.
Main range has rudimentary quoins to left angle; left side has
C18 2-storey rendered canted bay with three 6/6-pane sashes to
first floor, three C20 windows to ground floor. Wing to right
has 2 former openings to ground floor with exposed timber
lintels now blocked by C20 garage, battered buttresses to
ground floor, walls partially rebuilt in C19/ C20 to first
floor with C20 windows, flush quoins to rear right angle, flat
felt roof. Rear elevation has two C20 single-storey lean-to
additions, C20 windows.
INTERIOR partially inspected; late C18 well staircase now
without balustrade, late C18 reeded stone chimneypiece without
grate to ground floor front left, late C18 three-panel
shutters to windows, dado rail and 6-panel door with moulded
architrave, this room and hall have boxed-out beams with
panelled soffits, boxed-out beam in kitchen to rear, heavy
shallow-section chamfered beam to ground floor rear right.
(Jean Welsford: Cirencester: A History and Guide: Gloucester:
1987-: PP 63 - 64; DoE: List of Buildings of Special
Architectural or Historic Interest: (amendment) 4.7.75:
1971-).

Listing NGR: SP0320701493

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570056

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)