Northfield Windmill is a Grade II* listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. Windmill.

Northfield Windmill

WRENN ID
grey-bastion-rye
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
East Cambridgeshire
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1983
Type
Windmill
Source
Historic England listing

Description

In the entry for:

TL 57 NE 4/77

SOHAM THE SHADES Northfield Windmill

II

The address shall be amended to read:

THE SHADES Northfield Windmill

The grade shall be amended to: Grade II* (star)


TL 57 NE 4/77

SOHAM THE SHADES Northfield Windmill

II

Originally a smock windmill, early C18, used for drainage, moved to its present site in C19 and raised on brick plinth. Now a three storey cornmill. Timber framed with weatherboarding and with ogee shaped wood capping with ball finial. Original sails and fantail. Inside, much of the machinery is intact, including the windshaft, wallower and main shaft. The great spur wheel on the ground floor drives two grinding stones on the stone floor.

Listing NGR: TL5871675093

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