Stembridge Mill
STEMBRIDGE MILL, WINDMILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1235260
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Stembridge Mill
- Statutory Address:
- STEMBRIDGE MILL, WINDMILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1235260
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Stembridge Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- STEMBRIDGE MILL, WINDMILL 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:
- STEMBRIDGE MILL, WINDMILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- High Ham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 43282 30517
Details
HIGH HAM CP WINDMILL ROAD (South side) ST43SW EAST FIELD 2/59 Stembridge Mill - II* -
Windmill. 1822. Local lias stone roughly coursed; shaped thatched roof with plain gable over weatherboarded superstructure; wood sail frames. Circular plan. On north side, boarded door in heavy frame, up 4 steps, with a lower door in east face and a smaller door on south face; small casement windows on east side. Former bakery building to rear. Inside, four floors, and incomplete gear which once drove two pairs of stones: fireplace in lowest floor, the flue carried in wall to an outlet just below the cap. The mill stopped working by wind in 1897, and steam power was introduced; the drive shaft and gears are still in place; the French stones have balance weight pockets let into plaster backs, patented by Clark and Dunham in 1859. On the meal floor, below the stone floor, is a wire machine for dressing flour. The only surviving windmill in Somerset, it is the only thatched mill left in England. Acquired by National Trust in 1969, partly restored by them, further work in hand October 1984 (Watts, M: Somerset Windmills, Agraphicus, 1975; Couthard A J and Watts M, Windmills of Somerset and the men who worked them, - 1978).
Listing NGR: ST4328230517
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263124
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Watts, M, Somerset Windmills, (1975)
Coulthard, AJ, Watts, M, Windmills of Somerset and the men who worked them, (1978)
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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