Windmill House
WINDMILL HOUSE, RUSHDEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102667
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Windmill House
- Statutory Address:
- WINDMILL HOUSE, RUSHDEN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102667
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Windmill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WINDMILL HOUSE, RUSHDEN
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:
- WINDMILL HOUSE, RUSHDEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rushden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 30474 31556
Details
RUSHDEN RUSHDEN TL 3031 (Northwest side) 10/36 Windmill House 27.5.68 (formerly listed as Windmill Farmhouse, Church End) GV II House, formerly Post Office and dwelling. Late C15 or C16, hall floored and heated late C17, c.1800 divided to form 2 dwellings, extended C20. Timber frame, rendered. Thatched roof with some tiles. 2 bay hall with cross wing to left. 1 storey and attic with 2 storey cross wing. Entrance at lower end of hall with a plank and muntin door with a thatched hood on timber posts. Secondary date 'T 1730' in plaster over entrance. Single leaded light in service bay to right. 3 light flush frame casement to left, 3 light attic window with eyebrow thatching. Axial red brick ridge stack inserted at lower end of hall. Jettied cross wing to left has a plank and muntin door, 2 and 3 light casements with leaded panes on ground floor, curved bracket to right end of jetty. First floor pargetted with diamond patterning, a 2 light casement, exposed plates, and purlins. Tiles on right slope of wing and at left end of hall roof. Catslide roof over lean-to addition to left end of cross wing. Cross wing has a hipped roof to rear. Lean-to addition to rear of hall range. To right a C20 1 storey link to a C20 wing with a gable front, tiled roofs. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3047431556
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162359
- 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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