BUZZA TOWER

BUZZA TOWER, BUZZA HILL

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A windmill of 1821, restored in 1911. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291886
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1992
List Entry Name:: BUZZA TOWER
Statutory Address:: BUZZA TOWER, BUZZA HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291886
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1992
List Entry Name:: BUZZA TOWER
Statutory Address 1:: BUZZA TOWER, BUZZA HILL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BUZZA TOWER, BUZZA HILL

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

District:: Isles of Scilly (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Mary's
National Grid Reference:: SV 90644 10381

Details

1358/8/40 BUZZA HILL 14-DEC-1992 HUGH TOWN BUZZA TOWER

II A windmill of 1821, restored in 1911.

The squared and coursed granite windmill tower has a slate roof. The tower is circular on plan, stands three storeys high and has a ground-floor veranda with pent roof supported on alternate iron posts and granite pillars, creating a series of covered seating areas. There are unmoulded openings to the first and second floors with a coped parapet, supported on a blocking course.

History: The windmill was constructed in 1821 on the site of a Bronze Age kerbed cairn previously excavated by William Borlase in 1752. It was restored and extended in 1911 in commemoration of a visit by King Edward VII.

Sources: Goodwin, J. Granite towers on St, Mary's, Isles of Scilly, Cornish Archaeology, No.32, 1993, 128-139. Woodley, Rev. G. A View of the Present State of the Scilly Islands, 1822,180

Cornwall and Scilly HER records: (http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single_Print.aspx?uid=MCO30230&resourceID=1020): 7418, BUZZA TOWER - Post Medieval windmill [Accessed on 26/11/10]

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION Buzza Tower, Buzza Hill, St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, a former windmill of 1821, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

* Architectural: An interesting example of a pre-1840 windmill, later monumentalised. * Historical: A distinctive, commemorative monument marking the visit of King Edward VII. * Related assets: The tower stands on an unscheduled kerbed cairn, and beside a scheduled cairn with funerary chamber.

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Legacy System number:: 62481
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.