Windmill Tower at Mill Farm

WINDMILL TOWER AT MILL FARM, NORTH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1372899
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Windmill Tower at Mill Farm
Statutory Address:
WINDMILL TOWER AT MILL FARM, NORTH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1372899
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Windmill Tower at Mill Farm
Statutory Address 1:
WINDMILL TOWER AT MILL FARM, NORTH STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WINDMILL TOWER AT MILL FARM, NORTH STREET

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

District:
North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
West Butterwick
National Grid Reference:
SE8355006559

Details

SE 80 NW
8/152

WEST BUTTERWICK
NORTH STREET
(east side)
Windmill tower at Mill Farm

II

Windmill tower. c1824. Brick. Corrugated iron roof. Tapered round tower
of 4 storeys. Ground floor: C20 board door to east beneath C20 brick
soldier arch, stable door to south, probably inserted; 2 windows with sills
beneath segmental header arches, inserted segmental-headed window. Upper
floors each have single segmental headed windows with sills to east and west
sides, most with frames for top-hung casements, but no glazing. Stepped and
cogged brick cornice. Flat roof. Formerly had 4 sails driving 3 sets of
stones; ceased operation in early 1940s. Of the internal gear, only the
wooden upright shaft remained in 1978. Interior not investigated. Empty
and disused at time of resurvey. P Dolman, Lincolnshire Windmills, a
Contemporary Survey, 1986, pp 28, 61.

Listing NGR: SE8355006559

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
165216
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Dolman, P, Lincolnshire Windmills: a contemporary survey, (1986), 28, 61

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Windmill Tower at Mill Farm

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