Waddesdon Mill

What we do

The Mill is an historic building in a friendly village whose bright, spacious and well ventilated offices are laid out over 2 floors. There is a kitchen, loos (including disabled access on the ground floor, with shower) and several meeting rooms. Winner of a design award from the local council, The Mill was commended for “a sympathetic conversion of a redundant village landmark to a new business use”.

One of our tenants is Last Frontiers, who have been operating tailor-made tours to Latin America for 30 years.

History

Joseph Taylor built a steam-powered mill in Waddesdon in the mid-nineteenth century, with water supplied from a neighbouring brook. When the Rothschild family built Waddesdon Manor shortly afterwards, they found the smuts and noise too close for comfort and in 1893 persuaded the miller to re-build on the present site in Quainton Road. This time, as there was no stream, a 30 foot deep cistern was used to supply water for the engine's boiler. In the 1930's diesel power took over, but the mill was largely unchanged and continued to mill grain for animal feeds until the late 1960's. Thereafter the building was largely empty until its purchase from Joseph Taylor's great grandson in 2009, when it was sympathetically refurbished and converted into smart new offices. A section of the original corn bins in the roof, which once held a hundred tons of grain, has been retained.