WINDMILL AT NGR SY 69087138

SY6871 969-1/4/27 21/09/78

PORTLAND EASTON Windmill at NGR SY 69087138 (Formerly Listed as: EASTON Windmill about 830 yds south-east of St Georges Reforne)

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Disused windmill. Probably C17. Rough coursed rubble, roofless. A plain cylindrical shaft to flush dressed coping, c 4m diameter and c 5.5m high. At top are small openings to dressed jambs, former deep opening to west now blocked flush; to N and S plain square undressed openings to former doors. Walls c 650mm thick. Interior has various putlog holes at c 3.2 m from ground level, and various dressed slots internally. One of the only two remaing mills on the island, this one perhaps earlier than the other, which lies c.135m to the SE (qv). Shown on the Hutchins map of 1710. (Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Dorset: London: 1970-: 253).