Windmill House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 March 1980. Windmill.

Windmill House

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 March 1980
Type
Windmill
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Built as a tower windmill of which there remained in 1980 the 3-storey conical tower of coursed squared limestone rubble, minus its cap, internal floors and machinery. This has since been increased in height to 5-storeys plus a roof-top viewing platform. Welsh slate roofs to the two-and-a-half storey attached range. Square-headed window and door openings with stone voussoirs except to one window, while the southern doorway has a keystone. On both north and south sides there is a doorway at ground level (part blocked in north side) and a window above to each of five upper levels. The west elevation is adjacent to a north-south once single storey and attic range of stone rubble, the ground floor doorway at south end of east elevation with a lintel of stone voussoirs and with ledged door; gabled roof with brick stack to south gable. At the north end of this range and on the east side adjacent to the tower there is a lean-to with a window and doorway, both with brick heads, in the front wall. Comparison with the previous listing description suggests that the top two floors of the tower and the upper floor and the attic of the rest have been added, presumably in c1980 after listing. The tower is now five storeys with extra windows on each of the new floors, a concrete cap and a top viewing platform. The extra stonework has been reproduced very carefully, as it also has on the ancilliary building. The building was not accessible at resurvey and the openings are all currently blocked. It is clearly visible from the street but the details could not be checked fully.

Interior not accessible at resurvey. The whole building was so altered and rebuilt in c1980 that it is very unlikely that any historic features survive internally. Interior of range not inspected at first survey (1980) so its original purpose, in connection with the mill tower, whether storage or corn drying, is not known.

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