Description

SP 80 SW LACEY GREEN MAIN ROAD

5/79 Windmill

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- II*

Smock-mill. Mid-late C17, restored 1970s. Timber frame with
weatherboard cladding, now with C20 strengthening and weatherboarded
outer skin. Weatherboard is carried over curved pitches of cap.
Early C19 brick base. Octagonal, with sloping sides. 4 storeys.
Base has 2 board doors and 2 paired wooden casements, and is set
partly below ground flevel. Upper floors have barred wooden windows
on 2 opposite sides, all set like raking dormers. 2 board doors to
first floor. Revolving cap with 4 C20 wooden sails, the fantail in
process of restoration. Internally the frame has large roughly
curved braces between cant posts. Main machinery is complete with
main drive shaft and wallower, spur wheel,windshaft and brake wheel,
the wheel spokes morticed into the shafts. 2 sets of mill-stones
in rebuilt casing but with original tentering gear. Rebuilt shoots;
bins and flour dressers brought from elsewhere. Mill said to have
been moved from original site at Chesham in 1821.
(Chiltern Society leaflet "Lacey Green Windmill" 1973).

Listing NGR: SP8191600781

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17541010

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)