WIND ENGINE AND FORMER MILL HOUSE AT SU 4268 5632

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1093065
Date first listed:: 17-Jun-1991
List Entry Name:: WIND ENGINE AND FORMER MILL HOUSE AT SU 4268 5632
Statutory Address:: WIND ENGINE AND FORMER MILL HOUSE AT SU 4268 5632

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1093065
Date first listed:: 17-Jun-1991
List Entry Name:: WIND ENGINE AND FORMER MILL HOUSE AT SU 4268 5632
Statutory Address 1:: WIND ENGINE AND FORMER MILL HOUSE AT SU 4268 5632

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: WIND ENGINE AND FORMER MILL HOUSE AT SU 4268 5632

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

County:: Hampshire
District:: Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
Parish:: Ashmansworth
National Grid Reference:: SU 42681 56320

Details

The following structure shall be added to the list;

SU 45 NW ASHMANSWORTH CRUX EASTON 2/30 Wind engine and former mill house at SU 4268 5632

II

Wind engine and former mill house. C1891 engine made by John Wallis Titt. Wind-engine of iron with steel tower; mill house of red brick in English bond with half-hipped plain tile roof. Wind engine has tapering, hexagonal,cross-braced tower approx 6 metres (20 feet tall);brackets from former platform removed; sail frame with fantail (sails removed); some remaining sheyting and cogged machinery. The mill house has stepped eaves; gable end next to engine has blocked low-level opening (through which are shaft from engine) and board door below header brick arch; bricked-up opening in opposite gable; inserted doorway at eaves on north side. The sails were removed and put into storage in the 1960s; parts of the machinery and of tower structure are lying on the ground beside it. This wind-engine was of John Wallis Titt's 'Simplex' (approx 125 metres) engine design. It was used to pump up water from a 410 foot well, and to grind corn. J.K.Major, The Windmills of John Wallis Titt (The International Molinological Society, 1977),pp.4,31 and 32.

Listing NGR: SU4268056320

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Legacy System number:: 138485
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Major, J K , The Windmills of John Wallis Titt, (1977), 4, 31, 32

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.