Dandy Mill
DANDY MILL, WATER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313271
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dandy Mill
- Statutory Address:
- DANDY MILL, WATER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313271
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dandy Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- DANDY MILL, WATER LANE
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:
- DANDY MILL, WATER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 46732 23050
Details
PONTEFRACT WATER LANE SE 42 SE (east side) 3/65 Dandy Mill II
Windmill; tower now farm store. Dated 1819. For Boreas Union Mill Company. Bitumened red brick in English garden wall bond, 6-storey tower tapering inwards and set on steeply-battered base; the top 10 courses rebuilt in stretcher bond. Most openings are aligned vertically and have segmental header brick arches. Original windows have projecting stone sills and the openings are almost square in shape. South side has ground-floor doorway; first- and second-floor openings, formerly doorways since then partly-blocked to form windows; no fourth- or fifth- floor openings. West side: first-floor window has ashlar lintel inscribed "BOREAS Union Mill 1819". East side ground-floor doorway. Interior: floors supported on a single beam but floors damaged when machinery removed during World War II. The sails and cap had been removed before that, as the mill worked latterly on a gas turbine. This is now the only remaining windmill in Pontefract, but once there were several. The original name, alluding to the north wind, also indicated an early farmers' co-operative concern, typical of the early 19th century, aimed at breaking the old manorial monopoly of milling. There is no sign of a balcony
Listing NGR: SE4673223050
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342704
- 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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