Wilton Windmill
WILTON WINDMILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1034034
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wilton Windmill
- Statutory Address:
- WILTON WINDMILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1034034
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wilton Windmill
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILTON WINDMILL
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:
- WILTON WINDMILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grafton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 27565 61620
Details
GRAFTON WILTON SU 26 SE 5/55 Wilton Windmill II* Tower mill, 1821, by or for J.Gale. Restored 1971-6. Header bond brickwork. Rivetted sheet aluminium hemispherical cap. Five- storeys. Braced timber gallery of 1971-6 replacing original roundhouse. Ground floor; opposed doors and timber round headed windows throughout. 2 common and 2 patent sails, latter with 21 shades and leading boards. Iron spider. Six-blade fantail with external worm and cograck. Striking gear and chain set below fantail frame. Interior: Iron vertical shaft, brake wheel and spur wheel, the brake wheel with hardwood cogs. Band brake. Two pairs underdriven stones, 1 pair French burrs, 1 pair greys. Separate bevel gear drive to sack hoist and lay shaft to wire machine on first floor. Manual stone lifting gear. All sails and machinery restored and in working order, the only complete windmill in Wiltshire and probably on the site of an earlier post mill. (Reference: Wiltshire County Council Guide, 1979).
Listing NGR: SU2756561620
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 310775
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Wiltshire County Council Guide, (1979)
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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