Darrington Windmill is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1987. Tower windmill.
Darrington Windmill
- WRENN ID
- lunar-tracery-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1987
- Type
- Tower windmill
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
DARRINGTON MOOR LANE SE41NE (east side, off) 7/22 - Darrington Windmill - II Tower windmill, now store. Probably late C18 or very early C19; altered. Handmade brick enclosing timber frame. Conical basement and 4 stages. In the north east segment, a wide segmental arched wagon entrance to the basement, on the north side a plain doorway to the 1st stage, and above this square segmental-headed windows to each stage variously offset (all blocked); east side has a similar blocked window to 1st stage; west side has windows to each stage, all blocked or reduced; south side has a doorway to the Ist stage altered as a window, and blocked, and 2 blocked windows above. Superstructure missing. Interior; timber frame of central pillars carrying massive moulded saddle beams which support the floors of the 1st and 2nd stages apparently independent of the brick shell; 2nd stage retains original vertical drive shaft, large iron cogwheels, and 3 sets of grindstones.
Listing NGR: SE4739319876
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