Cat and Fiddle Mill
CAT AND FIDDLE MILL, LADYWOOD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1205307
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Cat and Fiddle Mill
- Statutory Address:
- CAT AND FIDDLE MILL, LADYWOOD ROAD
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- 2006-10-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/16157/28
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1205307
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cat and Fiddle Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAT AND FIDDLE MILL, LADYWOOD 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:
- CAT AND FIDDLE MILL, LADYWOOD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Erewash (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dale Abbey
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 43793 39778
Details
PARISH OF DALE ABBEY LADYWOOD ROAD SK 43 NW 5/12 (North Side) Cat and Fiddle Mill 2.9.52 (formerly listed as Windmill) GV I
Windmill of Midlands post type (ie: with body rotating about head of post but with added support via rollers from roundhouse below). Dated 1788 on upper cross tree. Coursed squared gritstone, brick and timber. Circular gritstone base of tapering profile. Reinforced by four later brick buttresses. Two doorways with plank doors. Weather-boarded superstructure with gabled top, projecting on one side. On the opposite side is a lean-to projection. This has plank double doors and descending from these a hinged broad step ladder, through which projects the turning post. On opposite side are the four wooden sails of spring-type. Inside, the massive crown tree in the base, supports the superstructure. In the upper part is the wire machine, mill stones, wind shaft and the brake and the drive wheels. The machinery is almost in working condition. The mill is one of only three of Midlands type preserved in the country (and the other two are substantially rebuilt).
Listing NGR: SK4379339778
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352218
- 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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