Post Mill
POST MILL, MILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1211279
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Post Mill
- Statutory Address:
- POST MILL, MILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1211279
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Post Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST MILL, MILL 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:
- POST MILL, MILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Gransden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 27717 55522
Details
In the entry for GREAT GRANSDEN MILL ROAD Post Mill
The following item number shall be added
15/70
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TL 2755 GREAT GRANSDEN MILL ROAD
- Post Mill
- II*
Post and open trestle mill built c.1612 (deed), the oldest remaining mill in England. Body of two storeys covered with tarred weatherboards. Two pairs of over-driven Burr stones on second floor. Sack hoist driven from wooden pulley on the windshaft behind the tail wheel. Flour dressing machine on first floor with inscription 'IL 1774 RW'. The mill is undergoing restoration 1982. Huntingdonshire Windmills. C.F. Tebbutt. 1942. Photographic record taken by Cambrdigeshire County Council's Architects Department. 1974. Measured Drawings by G. Black, Architect. 1979. Windmills in Huntingdon and Peterborough. A.C. Smith. 1977.
Listing NGR: TL2771755522
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395788
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Smith, A C, Windmills in Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1977)
Tebbutt, C F, Huntingdonshire Windmills, (1942)
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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