Post Mill
POST MILL, WINGFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284505
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Post Mill
- Statutory Address:
- POST MILL, WINGFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284505
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Post Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST MILL, WINGFIELD 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, WINGFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Syleham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 21391 77707
Details
In the entry for the Following: SYLEHAM Wingfield Road TM 27 NW 5/124 - Post Mill 27.9.55 -- II
The discription shall be amended to read:
Corn Windmill. Built 1730 at Earsham Street; moved to present position in 1823; damaged in storm of October 1987. Roundhouse of clay lump, plastered and tarred with boarded conical roof; part of timber-framed buck remains above. Circular roundhouse with rectangular-plan buck. East Suffolk postmill. Two-storey round- house; buck formerly of 3 storeys. Roundhouse has two boarded hatches with boarded doors below; ladder to buck, formerly turned by six-bladed fantail now missing. Interior of roundhouse: brick piers and crosstrees to bottom storey; full-height stop-chamfered post with quarter bars to buck; two pairs of engine-driven millstones on a hursting complete with tuns,horses, hoppers etc..
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SYLEHAM WINGFIELD ROAD TM 27 NW 5/124 Post Mill - 27.9.55 -- II
Post mill, now derelict. Built 1730 at Earsham Street, Wingfield and moved to its present site c.1823. Last worked by wind 1954. Timber framed and weatherboarded buck with 3 floors on a 2-storey roundhouse of flint and clay lump, rendered and tarred. Remains of 2 patent sails, their shutters now stored inside the mill. Formerly winded by a fantail (now missing). Machinery intact; includes cast iron windshaft on which are mounted wooden clasp-arm head and tail wheels, each driving a pair of millstones via stone nuts. The head stones have been removed. A further pair of stones in the roundhouse was driven by a small oil engine in an adjoining shed.
Listing NGR: TM2139177707
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280073
- 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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