Windmill North West of College of St Cuthbert

WINDMILL NORTH WEST OF COLLEGE OF ST CUTHBERT

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1185957
Date first listed:
17-Jan-1967
Statutory Address:
WINDMILL NORTH WEST OF COLLEGE OF ST CUTHBERT

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Date:
2001-06-30
Reference:
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Rights:
© Mr Thomas S. Bolton. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1185957
Date first listed:
17-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
14-Jun-1987
Statutory Address 1:
WINDMILL NORTH WEST OF COLLEGE OF ST CUTHBERT

Location

Statutory Address:
WINDMILL NORTH WEST OF COLLEGE OF ST CUTHBERT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Esh
National Grid Reference:
NZ 21528 43824

Details

ESH USHAW NZ 2143 14/14 Windmill north-west of 17.1.67 College of St Cuthbert (formerly listed as Old Mill in grounds of Ushaw College)

GV II

Windmill. 1817. Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Wide tapered tower, surviving to 2 storeys high. Flat stone lintels over boarded doors and boarded openings; beam-holes at gallery level; first-floor openings truncated at lintel level.

Built shortly after the college was founded in order to provide unadulterated flour, and at the personal expense of John Gillow. Source: David Milburn, A History of Ushaw College, Durham 1964, p.119.

Listing NGR: NZ2152843824

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350520
Legacy System:
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Milburn, D, A History of Ushaw College, (1964), 119

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