Windmill
WINDMILL, MILL ROAD
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1031207
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Windmill
- Statutory Address:
- WINDMILL, MILL ROAD
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2001-08-22
- Reference:
- IOE01/03412/34
- Rights:
- © Mr Raymond Warren. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1031207
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Windmill
- Statutory Address 1:
- WINDMILL, MILL ROAD
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:
- WINDMILL, MILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thelnetham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 01100 78967
Details
TM 07 NW THELNETHAM MILL ROAD
2/85 Windmill
II*
Tower windmill. 1819 with later modernisation (windshaft dated 'J.AICKMAN.LYNN. 1832'); restoration to working order commenced 1980. Tarred brick tower with ground floor and 3 upper floors; small segmental-headed casement windows, boarded half-door; conical vertically-boarded cap; no sails or fantail at time of survey. Machinery intact: wooden clasp-arm brakewheel with iron teeth, iron windshaft, iron wallower, wooden upright shaft in two sections, wooden clasp-arm spurwheel with iron teeth, iron stone nuts with wooden cogs: 2 pairs of underdriven millstones on the first floor and a third pair on the ground floor driven by engine via an external pulleywheel ; wooden crownwheel driving sack hoist. The diary of Thomas King, a local carpenter, records that the mill was begun in 1819 and 'set to work on Christmas Day Dec.25 1819'.
Listing NGR: TM0110078967
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 284348
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 23-Jun-2026 at 16:09:22.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.