Windmill, To Rear Of The Mill House is a Grade II* listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1959. Windmill. 1 related planning application.
Windmill, To Rear Of The Mill House
- WRENN ID
- salt-lancet-elm
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1959
- Type
- Windmill
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entry for:-
TL 5664 13/186 19.8.1959
SWAFFHAM PRIOR MILL HILL (West Side) Windmill, to rear of the Mill House (formerly listed as Smock Mill)
GV II
Shall be replaced by:-
TL5764 169/13/186 19.8.59
SWAFFHAM PRIOR MILL HILL Windmill, to the rear of the Mill House
GV II*
Tower windmill. 1864, restored late C20. Clunch faced with brick and tarred. Three stages with plank stable door at ground floor and with glazing bar casements decreasing in size as they rise. Mill topped with revolving ogee cap with four sails and a fantail. INTERIOR retains original floors and staircases. It also retains all its original internal milling machinery including two pairs of grinding stones. A very complete example of a tower mill of the period.
Source: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire North East, 1972, Page 127.
Listing NGR: TL5722764230
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