Chesterton Windmill
CHESTERTON WINDMILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1300056
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Chesterton Windmill
- Statutory Address:
- CHESTERTON WINDMILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1300056
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Chesterton Windmill
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESTERTON WINDMILL
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:
- CHESTERTON WINDMILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chesterton and Kingston
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 34864 59349
Details
CHESTERTON AND KINGSTON SP35NW 4/48 Chesterton Windmill 07/01/52 I
Windmill. 1632. Probably designed by Sir Edward Peyto for himself. Restored 1965-1974. Ground floor of limestone ashlar; first floor of sandstone ashlar; moulded limestone string course and cornice. Ribbed aluminium cap with finial. Circular plan. 2 storeys. Tall ground floor has open arcade of 6 moulded sandstone round arches, and piers with moulded bases and capitals. First floor has 2 ovolo-moulded stone cross windows to front, and 2 similar small single lights to rear. Renewed cloth spread sails. To rear: segmental-roof roof dormer has 3-light window and date with initials EP. Interior: said to retain its machinery. The cap could be turned into the wind by a hand winch. There was originally a central timber structure housing the staircase. The windmill stands on a shallow raised platform. It was associated with Chesterton House, demolished in 1802. (V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.5, p.42; Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.230).
Listing NGR: SP3486459349
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 307044
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1949), 42
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 230
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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