Mill Tower At The Windmill

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SE 70 NE BELTON WESTGATE (north side)

7/32 Mill tower at The Windmill

- II

Windmill tower, now part of house. Early C19 with alterations of 1982-4.

Brown brick with traces of tarring. Fibre-glass covered cap. Tapered round tower of 4 storeys. Unsympathetic inserted full-height windows in original segmental-headed ground-floor openings; C20 casements in original segmental-headed windows to upper floors. Dentilled cornice. Dummy ogee cap with breast beam, shaft and skylight. C20 addition to east is not of special interest. The mill was wind-driven until the early '30s, and finally ceased operating c1960. Some gear was removed in 1980 for reuse, including the iron bridgetree now at Bardwell Mill, Suffolk. P Dolman, Lincolnshire Windmills, a Contemporary Survey, 1986, pp 12, 37.

Listing NGR: SE7698307512

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1749 IOE Records taken by Janet Roworth; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mrs Janet Roworth. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project