List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: POST MILL
List Entry Number: 1211279
Location
POST MILL, MILL ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Cambridgeshire
District: Huntingdonshire
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Great Gransden
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 18-Nov-1983
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 395788
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List Entry Description
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History
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Details
In the entry for GREAT GRANSDEN MILL ROAD
Post Mill
The following item number shall be added
15/70
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TL 2755 GREAT GRANSDEN MILL ROAD
- Post Mill
- II*
Post and open trestle mill built c.1612 (deed), the oldest
remaining mill in England. Body of two storeys covered with
tarred weatherboards. Two pairs of over-driven Burr stones on
second floor. Sack hoist driven from wooden pulley on the
windshaft behind the tail wheel. Flour dressing machine on
first floor with inscription 'IL 1774 RW'. The mill is
undergoing restoration 1982.
Huntingdonshire Windmills. C.F. Tebbutt. 1942.
Photographic record taken by Cambrdigeshire County Council's
Architects Department. 1974.
Measured Drawings by G. Black, Architect. 1979.
Windmills in Huntingdon and Peterborough. A.C. Smith. 1977.
Listing NGR: TL2771755522
Selected Sources
Books and journalsSmith, A C , Windmills in Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1977)
Tebbutt, C F , Huntingdonshire Windmills, (1942)
Map
National Grid Reference: TL 27717 55522
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