Holton Mill

HOLTON MILL, SOUTHWOLD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032130
Date first listed:
01-Sept-1953
List Entry Name:
Holton Mill
Statutory Address:
HOLTON MILL, SOUTHWOLD ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032130
Date first listed:
01-Sept-1953
List Entry Name:
Holton Mill
Statutory Address 1:
HOLTON MILL, SOUTHWOLD 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HOLTON MILL, SOUTHWOLD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Holton
National Grid Reference:
TM 40226 77444

Details

HOLTON SOUTHWOLD ROAD TM 4077 8/18 Holton Mill 1.9.53

GV II

Post windmill. Mid C18 with considerable later alteration and rebuilding. Restored 1966-68 and now preserved by Sufolk County Council. Timber-framed and weatherboarded buck with 3 floors; tarred brick roundhouse with 2 floors, one of which is below ground. The roundhouse and the fantail are C19 additions. 4 dummy sails. The machinery has been removed with the exception of the cast iron windshaft and wooden brakewheel, both C19 replacements. Among the early carved inscriptions on the side girts are: 'I.Swan 174-' (probably 1749); 'W.Bedwell'; 'John.Swan 1754'.

Listing NGR: TM4022677444

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
281977
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.

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