Six Mile Bottom Windmill
SIX MILE BOTTOM WINDMILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1126339
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Six Mile Bottom Windmill
- Statutory Address:
- SIX MILE BOTTOM WINDMILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1126339
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1980
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Six Mile Bottom Windmill
- Statutory Address 1:
- SIX MILE BOTTOM 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:
- SIX MILE BOTTOM WINDMILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Burrough Green
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 58822 58183
Details
TL 55 NE BURROUGH GREEN BUNGALOW HILL
5/17 Six Mile 20.2.80 Bottom Windmill (formerly listed as Six Mile Bottom Post Mill)
GV II*
Post mill constructed without side girts (H Wozniak) suggesting a date before 1600, rebuilt c.1846 with earliest carved date RB 1764. Weather boarded, without sails. Round tower of local red brick with two opposing boarded doors. Interior originally plastered has two grind stones in situ, cast iron sail shaft, 1874, and fittings. C19 wooden hoist and bins. (Under restoration 1983). VCH, Vol, VI, p.145. H Wozniak, Six Mile Bottom Windmill, Cambs, 1980, CC. Palmer, History of Burrough Green, 1939.
Listing NGR: TL5882258183
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49109
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Palmer, , History of Burrough Green, (1939)
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 145
Wozniak, H, Six Mile Bottom Windmill, (1980)
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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