Outwood Post Mill
OUTWOOD POST MILL, GAYHOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1029961
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Outwood Post Mill
- Statutory Address:
- OUTWOOD POST MILL, GAYHOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1029961
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Outwood Post Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- OUTWOOD POST MILL, GAYHOUSE LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OUTWOOD POST MILL, GAYHOUSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Tandridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Outwood
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 32770 45551
Details
TQ 34NW BURSTOW C.P. GAYHOUSE LANE
4/86 Outwood Post Mill 11/6/58 I
Post Mill. 1665 restored in C19 & C20. Oak substructure on whitewashed brick circular base with felt pent roof. Weatherboarded above with 4" slatted pine sails. Steps and post to rear with board door under shallow pent roof. 2 casement windows in sides and boarded openings to rear, further doors under transome lights in sides of circular base.
Interior: Mill machinery remains largely in working order. Oak crowntree 21 inches square is inscribed with date 1880. Reputed to be the oldest working Windmill in the country.
THE WINDMILLS OF SURREY AND INNER LONDON - K.G. Farries and M.T. Mason (1966) pp.165-170.
Listing NGR: TQ3277045551
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 287325
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Farries, , Mason, , The Windmills of Surrey and Inner London, (1906), 165-170
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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