Windmill

WINDMILL, CROFT LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1223035
Date first listed:
17-Dec-1987
Statutory Address:
WINDMILL, CROFT LANE

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Date:
2001-05-19
Reference:
IOE01/03663/29
Rights:
© Mr John Scarbro. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1223035
Date first listed:
17-Dec-1987
Statutory Address 1:
WINDMILL, CROFT LANE

Location

Statutory Address:
WINDMILL, CROFT LANE

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

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
East Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish:
Croft
National Grid Reference:
TF5006859615

Details

TF 55 NW
7/26

CROFT
off CROFT LANE
(west side)
Windmill

G.V.
II

Tower mill. 1814, raised 1859, 1949. Tarred red brick with
brick battlements. 4 storeys, raised to 7 storeys in 1859, but
reduced to 4 storeys with battlements in 1949. West side with
doorway with plank door and stone above inscribed: 'W.A.S. 1814',
with 3 casements, one above the other, above. North side with
doorway with plank door and 2 casements, one above the other,
above. South side with 2 casements, one above the other. East
side with 3 casements, one above the other. All the openings
with segmental heads. No milling machinery survives internally.
Source: Dolman, p.14.

Listing NGR: TF5006859615

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
418570
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Dolman, P, Lincolnshire Windmills: a contemporary survey, (1986), 14

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Ordnance survey map of Windmill

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