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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