Northfield Windmill
NORTHFIELD WINDMILL, THE SHADES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1126418
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Northfield Windmill
- Statutory Address:
- NORTHFIELD WINDMILL, THE SHADES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1126418
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Northfield Windmill
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTHFIELD WINDMILL, THE SHADES
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:
- NORTHFIELD WINDMILL, THE SHADES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Soham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL5871675093
Details
In the entry for:
TL 57 NE
4/77
SOHAM
THE SHADES
Northfield Windmill
II
The address shall be amended to read:
THE SHADES
Northfield Windmill
The grade shall be amended to: Grade II* (star)
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TL 57 NE
4/77
SOHAM
THE SHADES
Northfield Windmill
II
Originally a smock windmill, early C18, used for drainage, moved
to its present site in C19 and raised on brick plinth. Now a
three storey cornmill. Timber framed with weatherboarding and
with ogee shaped wood capping with ball finial. Original sails
and fantail. Inside, much of the machinery is intact, including
the windshaft, wallower and main shaft. The great spur wheel on
the ground floor drives two grinding stones on the stone floor.
Listing NGR: TL5871675093
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48884
- 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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