The Windmill
THE WINDMILL, DUCK END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122733
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Windmill
- Statutory Address:
- THE WINDMILL, DUCK END
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- 2002-06-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/06845/18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122733
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Windmill
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WINDMILL, DUCK END
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:
- THE WINDMILL, DUCK END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Finchingfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 68547 32974
Details
TL 6832 FINCHINGFIELD DUCK END (east side)
7/38 The Windmill 2.5.53
GV II
Post mill. Early C18. Timber framed, weatherboarded, roundhouse of red brick. A small postmill, brought from elsewhere and erected on a high mill mound before 1840. The roundhouse was added in 1840. Formerly had 4 single-shuttered spring sails revolving anti-clockwise on an all-wooden windshaft (a rare feature, which survives dismantled), driving one pair of stones directly from the brakewheel, with a tail pole to turn it into the wind. Many carved dates inside the structure, of which the earliest is 1753. Belonged to the Spains Hall estate and last worked c.1890. After a period of dereliction it was repaired by the Parish, and again in 1958 by Essex County Council. At time of survey, August 1984, a major programme of restoration by Essex County Council has begun.
Listing NGR: TL6854732974
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115181
- 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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