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Name:	STEVINGTON WINDMILL
HER No.:	924
Type of Record:	Listed Building

Summary

Post-mill, dating from 1770 with 19th and 20th century renovation.

Grid Reference:	SP 991 527
Parish:	STEVINGTON, BEDFORD BOROUGH, BEDFORDSHIRE
Map:	Show location on Streetmap

Full Description

Post-mill dated 1770 on one of the crosstrees. Rebuilt 1921 and restored in 1951. Two-storey body, timber-framed with pitch pine weatherboarding. Gambrel corrugated iron roof. Four common sails (no longer covered). Internal machinery completely restored and in workable order. Roundhouse around base was probably added in C19, rubble with tile roof. This is the only complete windmill left in Bedfordshire and probably the last windmill in England to work with four common sails. (Beds C.C. - Stevington Windmill 1975).

Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, 1931, pp 36-37 (Serial). SBD10681.

Bedfordshire Magazine, Vol 1, 1947, pp 37-38; p 89 (Bibliographic reference). SBD10543.

Bedfordshire Magazine, Vol 10, p 307 (Bibliographic reference). SBD10543.

Bedfordshire Magazine, Vol 11, p 147 (Bibliographic reference). SBD10543.

Bedfordshire Magazine, Vol 13, p 251 (Bibliographic reference). SBD10543.

Bedfordshire Magazine, Vol 3, pp 5, 200 (Bibliographic reference). SBD10543.

Bedfordshire Magazine, Vol 4, pp 212-214 (Bibliographic reference). SBD10543.

Bedfordshire Magazine, Vol 6, p 257 (Bibliographic reference). SBD10543.

Bedfordshire Magazine, Vol 8, p 171 (Bibliographic reference). SBD10543.

HER Photograph Archive, F1261/19-20 (Photograph). SBD10506.

HER Slide Archive, 1119-1120 (Slide). SBD10508.

HER Slide Archive, 136 (Slide). SBD10508.

HER Slide Archive, 6594 (Slide). SBD10508.

HER Slide Archive, 6850-6852 (Slide). SBD10508.

HER Slide Archive, 7360 (Slide). SBD10508.

NMR Buildings file, BF001943 (Unpublished document). SBD10795.

NMR Photographs, no refs (Photograph). SBD10708.

OS: SP 95 SE, SP 95 SE 27 (Unpublished document). SBD10866.

Bedfordshire County Council, 1951, Restoration of Stevington Windmill (Article in monograph). SBD11266.

A F Cirket, 1966, Stevington Windmill (Article in monograph). SBD11264.

J K Major, 1967, The Windmills and Watermills of Bedfordshire, no page ref (Bibliographic reference). SBD11263.

Nikolaus Pevsner, 1968, Buildings of England, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, no page ref (Bibliographic reference). SBD10533.

Lincroft School, Oakley, 1975, Three North Bedfordshire Windmills (Unpublished document). SBD11265.

Keith Falconer, 1980, Guide to England's Industrial Heritage, p 44 (Bibliographic reference). SBD10699.

1987, DoE North Beds 45th List of Buildings of Special Architectural Interest, 8/538 (Index). SBD10853.

Protected Status:

Listed Building (II*) 1310161: Stevington Windmill

Monument Type(s):

POST MILL (18th Century to 20th Century - 1770 AD to 1921 AD)
WINDMILL (18th Century to Unknown - 1770 AD)
POST MILL (20th Century - 1921 AD to 1958 AD)
POST MILL (20th Century - 1958 AD to 1972 AD)
POST MILL (20th Century to Unknown - 1972 AD)

Associated Finds: None recorded

Associated Events: None recorded

Sources and Further Reading

---	SBD10506 - Photograph: HER Photograph Archive. F1261/19-20.
---	SBD10508 - Slide: HER Slide Archive. 136.
---	SBD10533 - Bibliographic reference: Nikolaus Pevsner. 1968. Buildings of England, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough. no page ref.
---	SBD10543 - Bibliographic reference: Bedfordshire Magazine. Vol 1, 1947, pp 37-38; p 89.
---	SBD10681 - Serial: Bedfordshire Historical Record Society. 1931, pp 36-37.
---	SBD10699 - Bibliographic reference: Keith Falconer. 1980. Guide to England's Industrial Heritage. p 44.
---	SBD10708 - Photograph: NMR Photographs. no refs.
---	SBD10795 - Unpublished document: NMR Buildings file. BF001943.
---	SBD10853 - Index: 1987. DoE North Beds 45th List of Buildings of Special Architectural Interest. 8/538.
---	SBD10866 - Unpublished document: OS: SP 95 SE. SP 95 SE 27.
---	SBD11263 - Bibliographic reference: J K Major. 1967. The Windmills and Watermills of Bedfordshire. no page ref.
---	SBD11264 - Article in monograph: A F Cirket. 1966. Stevington Windmill.
---	SBD11265 - Unpublished document: Lincroft School, Oakley. 1975. Three North Bedfordshire Windmills.
---	SBD11266 - Article in monograph: Bedfordshire County Council. 1951. Restoration of Stevington Windmill.

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