Garboldisham Windmill
GARBOLDISHAM WINDMILL, HOPTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1168497
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Garboldisham Windmill
- Statutory Address:
- GARBOLDISHAM WINDMILL, HOPTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1168497
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Garboldisham Windmill
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARBOLDISHAM WINDMILL, HOPTON STREET
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:
- GARBOLDISHAM WINDMILL, HOPTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Garboldisham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0027380476
Details
TM 08 SW
6/17
GARBOLDISHAM
HOPTON STREET
Garboldisham Windmill
16/7/58
- II*
Post Mill. c.1780. Brick and timber. Circular brick roundhouse with conical timber roof to buck. Doors to east and west. The buck is weatherboarded with gabled roof covered with felt, as is the roundhouse. Scissor braced ladder staircase leads to first floor door of 3 storeyed superstructure. 3 blind windows to each lateral face. Interior of roundhouse of usual disposition : 4 brick piers support cross trees and 4 quarter bars brace main post descending through roof. Main post rises into buck stopped at crown-tree. Upper storey retains wind shaft, wallower and drive shaft which drops to great spur wheel engaged into stone nuts of 2 underdriven pairs of stones. Sails and tiller beam missing.
Listing NGR: TM0027380476
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220536
- 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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