Cromer Windmill
CROMER WINDMILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1101453
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Cromer Windmill
- Statutory Address:
- CROMER WINDMILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1101453
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Cromer Windmill
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROMER 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:
- CROMER WINDMILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ardeley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 30452 28642
Details
TL 32 NW ARDELEY CROMER MILL LANE (south side) Cromer
2/1 Cromer Windmill (at road 22.2.67 junction NE of village) (formerly listed as Windmill under general)
GV II
The entry shall be amended to read:
TL 32 NW ARDELEY CROMER MILL LANE
555-0-2/1 Cromer Windmill 22.02.67
GV II*
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Cromer TL 32 NW ARDELEY CROMER MILL LANE (south side)
2/1 Cromer Windmill (at road junction NE of village) 22.2.67 (formerly listed as Windmill under general)
GV II
Post-mill. C18 (said to be c1720), ceased working c1923, body repaired c1937, restored with sails and fantail 1967-9. Timber frame with horizontal white weatherboarding carried up over ogee shaped cap. Supported above an octagonal red brick roundhouse with felted roof. Elaborately geared fantail, with openwork blades and with carriage fixed to broad ladder at rear. Cast iron windshaft for 4 patent sails (without shutters) now dismantled and stored next the mill. A 2-storeys rotating mill carried on a very large faceted central post supported by a large timber trestle protected by the round house. The body is carried on a massive crown-tree in the middle floor from which the rest of the timer frame is hung. 2 stones are now set in the upper floor in the breast of the mill, with cast iron gearing and separate centrifugal governors at high level in the lower floor. A hoist pulled up grain bags to the top of the mill through a trap door and wooden chutes took the ground floor to the lower floor. A steep ladder joins the two and small shuttered apartures light the interior. The brake-wheel and brake have been dismantled. The stones said to have been formerly arranged with one in tail and one in the breast but this gave trouble and altered to present arrangement and tailpole replaced by present automatic fantail. The mill stands on an artificial mound the site for the manorial windmill acquired c1222 (VCH (1912) 196). Of special interest as a conspicuous landmark and the county's only remaining post-mill. (Branch Johnson (1970) 52: Pevsner (1977) 73: D Smith Enqlish Windmills II London 1932: A C Smith Cromer Windmill Stevenage Mus. 1975).
Listing NGR: TL3045228642
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159521
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Smith, D, English Windmills, (1932)
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912)
Smith, A C, Cromer Windmill, (1975)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 73
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 52
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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