Wheatley Windmill
WHEATLEY WINDMILL, WINDMILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369287
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Wheatley Windmill
- Statutory Address:
- WHEATLEY WINDMILL, WINDMILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369287
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Wheatley Windmill
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHEATLEY WINDMILL, WINDMILL 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:
- WHEATLEY WINDMILL, WINDMILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wheatley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 58870 05239
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/03/2012
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18/07/63
WHEATLEY
WINDMILL LANE
(North side)
Wheatley Windmill
II
Windmill. Mid C18. Limestone rubble with squared quoins. Octagonal plan. Tower
has 3 storeys with openings at each level on 4 sides, all with brick segmental arches
with stone keyblocks. The masonry is heavily patched with brickwork. Circular top
formerly held an ogee copper-clad cap, now dismantled. Interior: Much of the
structure and machinery survives. Cast on the boss of the windshaft is "EAGLE FOUNDRY1784". A drive shaft survives which served an external ochre-grinding mill. The windmill was rebuilt around 1763 after a fire and was last used in 1914 when the mill closed. It was struck by lightning in 1939 and the cap and sails were destroyed. It is said to be one of only 3 windmills remaining in the county.
(V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol. V, p.109).
Listing NGR: SP5887005239
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247007
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 109
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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