Listed Building: WINDMILL AT NGR SY 69087138 (381891)

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Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 969-1/4/27
Date assigned 21 September 1978
Date last amended

Description

PORTLAND SY6871 EASTON 969-1/4/27 Windmill at NGR SY 69087138 21/09/78 (Formerly Listed as: EASTON Windmill about 830 yds south-east of St Georges Reforne) II Disused windmill. Probably C17. Rough coursed rubble, roofless. A plain cylindrical shaft to flush dressed coping, c 4m diameter and c 5.5m high. At top are small openings to dressed jambs, former deep opening to west now blocked flush; to N and S plain square undressed openings to former doors. Walls c 650mm thick. Interior has various putlog holes at c 3.2 m from ground level, and various dressed slots internally. One of the only two remaing mills on the island, this one perhaps earlier than the other, which lies c.135m to the SE (qv). Shown on the Hutchins map of 1710. (Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Dorset: London: 1970-: 253). Listing NGR: SY6908071380

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Location

Grid reference SY 6907 7137 (point)
Non Parish Area Portland; Dorset
Borough (historic) Weymouth and Portland
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Oct 2 2009 4:06AM