Maud Foster Windmill and Granary

MAUD FOSTER WINDMILL AND GRANARY, WILLOUGHBY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1389071
Date first listed:
27-May-1949
Statutory Address:
MAUD FOSTER WINDMILL AND GRANARY, WILLOUGHBY ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1389071
Date first listed:
27-May-1949
Statutory Address 1:
MAUD FOSTER WINDMILL AND GRANARY, WILLOUGHBY ROAD

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

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