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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
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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).

Protected Status: None recorded

Monument Type(s):

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

Associated Finds: None recorded

Associated Events: None recorded