Maud Foster Windmill and Granary
MAUD FOSTER WINDMILL AND GRANARY, WILLOUGHBY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1389071
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Maud Foster Windmill and Granary
- Statutory Address:
- MAUD FOSTER WINDMILL AND GRANARY, WILLOUGHBY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1389071
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Maud Foster Windmill and Granary
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAUD FOSTER WINDMILL AND GRANARY, WILLOUGHBY 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:
- MAUD FOSTER WINDMILL AND GRANARY, WILLOUGHBY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- Boston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 33172 44754
Details
BOSTON
TF3344NW WILLOUGHBY ROAD
716-1/5/241 (East side)
27/05/49 (Consecutive)
Maud Foster Windmill and granary
GV I
Tower mill and granary. 1819, repaired and restored 1988. For
Isaac Beckitts of Wainfleet. Gault brick, red brick, pantile
roof. Mill tower of 7 stages in Gault brick. Painted timber
and canvas ogee cap with 5 full sails and fan tail.
EXTERIOR: to the 3rd floor a cantilevered timber balcony on
timber brackets, with cross motif balustrade. To the ground
floor a pair of planked doors up 3 stone steps. Yorkshire sash
windows to each stage with segmental heads. To the left a
3-storey, 4-bay, red brick granary with hipped pantile roof,
and brick dog-toothed eaves. To each floor a pair of planked
doors to the left, with beyond to left a single, and to right
a pair, of Yorkshire sash windows. In the roof a C20 timber
planked and gabled lucam on timber brackets. All openings have
brick segmental heads.
INTERIOR: retains original floor beams and repaired stair
ladders and full mill machinery dating from 1819 by Norman and
Smithson of Hull. It has 8 sets of stones and is in full
working order.
Listing NGR: TF3317244754
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486534
- 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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