Waltham Windmill
WALTHAM WINDMILL, BRIGSLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1161256
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Waltham Windmill
- Statutory Address:
- WALTHAM WINDMILL, BRIGSLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1161256
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Waltham Windmill
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALTHAM WINDMILL, BRIGSLEY ROAD
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:
- WALTHAM WINDMILL, BRIGSLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Waltham
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 25951 03280
Details
WALTHAM
1206/7/45 BRIGSLEY ROAD 28-APR-52 (East,off) Waltham Windmill
II* Tower windmill. 1880 by John Saunderson of Louth. Restorations underway since 1966. Tarred brick tower with wooden cap and sails. Tapered round tower of 6 storeys. 2-fold recessed board door and original 20-pane iron casements in renewed wooden frames beneath segmental arches: 4 windows to 2nd floor, 2 to others, with single windows to 3rd and 4th floors (formerly 2, now blocked). Corbelled cornice. Renewed wooden ogee cap with ball finial, fantail and six sails (two replaced, rest restored). Interior: complete set of machinery, with two over-driven and two under-driven stones, of which one of each is French burr and one each is Derbyshire millstone grit. Main and subsiduary shafts and wheels in cast iron, alternate cogged wheels in wood (to prevent sparks). Original sack lift on continuous chain friction driven by wallower, original floor beams, restored/renewed corn chutes, stairs and floors. The last 6-sailed mill to be built in Lincolnshire, and the only such mill in full working order. Maintained and operated by the Waltham Windmill Preservation Society.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164412
- 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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