Upthorpe Windmill is a Grade II* listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1970. A C19 Post windmill.
Upthorpe Windmill
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-soffit-grain
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1970
- Type
- Post windmill
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TL 97 SE STANTON UPTHORPE ROAD
3/52 Upthorpe Windmill 10.6.70 (Formerly listed as Stanton Upthorpe Windmill under General) GV II*
Post windmill. Dated 1807; restored 1939 but now derelict. Timber framed and weatherboarded buck with roof clad in iron sheeting; low red brick roundhouse. Remains of 2 patent sails; steps and fantail supports at rear, the fantail blades removed 1969 and stored inside the mill. The machinery is intact and includes wooden clasp-arm brakewheel with iron teeth mounted on a wooden windshaft; iron wallower and iron spurwheel with wooden cogs mounted on a wooden upright shaft; 2 pairs of underdriven mill stones in the breast; tentering system and sack hoist complete. A third pair of belt-driven stones in the tail were removed in 1939. Scheduled Ancient Monument (County No.136).
Listing NGR: TL9713373299
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