Upthorpe Windmill
UPTHORPE WINDMILL, UPTHORPE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1376972
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Upthorpe Windmill
- Statutory Address:
- UPTHORPE WINDMILL, UPTHORPE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1376972
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Upthorpe Windmill
- Statutory Address 1:
- UPTHORPE WINDMILL, UPTHORPE ROAD
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:
- UPTHORPE WINDMILL, UPTHORPE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 97133 73299
Details
TL 97 SE STANTON UPTHORPE ROAD
3/52 Upthorpe Windmill 10.6.70 (Formerly listed as Stanton Upthorpe Windmill under General) GV II*
Post windmill. Dated 1807; restored 1939 but now derelict. Timber framed and weatherboarded buck with roof clad in iron sheeting; low red brick roundhouse. Remains of 2 patent sails; steps and fantail supports at rear, the fantail blades removed 1969 and stored inside the mill. The machinery is intact and includes wooden clasp-arm brakewheel with iron teeth mounted on a wooden windshaft; iron wallower and iron spurwheel with wooden cogs mounted on a wooden upright shaft; 2 pairs of underdriven mill stones in the breast; tentering system and sack hoist complete. A third pair of belt-driven stones in the tail were removed in 1939. Scheduled Ancient Monument (County No.136).
Listing NGR: TL9713373299
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 284315
- 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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