Wrawby Post Mill
WRAWBY POST MILL, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1083726
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Wrawby Post Mill
- Statutory Address:
- WRAWBY POST MILL, MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1083726
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Wrawby Post Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- WRAWBY POST MILL, MILL 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:
- WRAWBY POST MILL, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wrawby
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 02607 08753
Details
WRAWBY MILL LANE TA 00 fill (west side) 8/51 Wrawby Post Mill 19/10/51 - II * Post mill. Mid - late C18, with base rebuilt and encased in C19. Extensively restored in 1964. Painted weather-boarded timber mill superstructure on tarred brick base with shingle roof. Single-storey base, round on plan, with 2-storey revolving mill tower above. Base: 2 recessed board doors with lintels and one segmental-arched 3-light casement; domed roof with sheet metal skirting to eaves. Mill tower rectangular in plan with pointed-arch roof. Tail-pole and flight of steps to rear entrance with board door and hatch above with wrought-iron strap hinges. Sides have small single casement to each floor. Full set of 4 single-shutter sails to front. Interior. Superstructure carried on original cross-tree and main post supported on timber cross-frame within brick base. Timber machinery largely restored, with 2 sets of stones. In full working order. A prominent landmark, and the only surviving working post mill in Lincolnshire - Humberside. In the care of the Wrawby Mill Preservation Society. Photographs in NMR.
Listing NGR: TA0260708753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165958
- 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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