King's Windmill
KING'S WINDMILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1180806
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1959
- List Entry Name:
- King's Windmill
- Statutory Address:
- KING'S WINDMILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1180806
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1959
- List Entry Name:
- King's Windmill
- Statutory Address 1:
- KING'S 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:
- KING'S WINDMILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Horsham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shipley
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 14324 21870
Details
TQ 12 SW
965/15/463
22.9.59
SHIPLEY
SHIPLEY VILLAGE King's Windmill
II*
Smock mill and engine house. Mill of 1879 for Mr Friend Marten by Grist and Steel, millwrights of Horsham, engine house of 1880. Corn mill of four storeys has octagonal "roundhouse" of tarred weather-boarding. Platform above this supported on diagonal struts. Upper storeys faced with weather- boarding. Pointed hexagonal cap with ball finial. Sweeps and fantail intact. Attached engine house of one storey corrugated iron on wooden frame with partially gabled and partially hipped corrugated iron roof and casement windows. Steam engine no longer present but water pump survives. Good example of a smock mill in working order and the most recent and biggest windmill in Sussex. The engine house has always been an integral part of the mill and its history and was built within months of the completion of the windmill in 1880. There are two inscriptions over a window on the second floor of the mill: "Engine started January 6th 1880" and "First day new engine October 20th 1880". The steam engine was important to the operation of the mill as the location was not ideal for catching the wind. The mill was bought in 1906 by the author Hilaire Belloc, who owned it until his death in 1953. The mill was worked until
1926 when the engine was disposed of.
Listing NGR: TQ1432421870
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 299535
- 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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