Upthorpe Windmill

UPTHORPE WINDMILL, UPTHORPE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1376972
Date first listed:
10-Jun-1970
Statutory Address:
UPTHORPE WINDMILL, UPTHORPE ROAD
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2007-04-26
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1376972
Date first listed:
10-Jun-1970
Date of most recent amendment:
27-Sept-1984
Statutory Address 1:
UPTHORPE WINDMILL, UPTHORPE ROAD

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

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284315
Legacy System:
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