Bourn Mill
BOURN MILL, CAXTON END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1162375
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Bourn Mill
- Statutory Address:
- BOURN MILL, CAXTON END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1162375
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Bourn Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOURN MILL, CAXTON END
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BOURN MILL, CAXTON END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bourn
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3118758004
Details
TL 35 NW
7/20
31.8.62
BOURN
CAXTON ROAD
(North Side)
Bourn Mill
I
Post Mill. Early C17, restorations 1874, 1933, 61, 84. Timber-framed and
weatherboarded with gabled roof, some material reused. Brick piers with two
cross trees and quarter bars C19. Marine plyboard casing and weatherboarding
added in 1984 by C. Wallis, millwright. (Four sails and mill ladder removed
for repair). Interior, gearing complete with one pair of stones and wooden
brake. Sack hoist driven by chain from a pulley on the windshaft. The mill
is mentioned as standing in 1636 deed. It was purchased by The
Cambridgeshire Preservation Society in 1932. One stud is inscribed E. Bismur
1758. Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Drawings of Bourn Mill by Rex Wailes 1961
Drawings of Bourn Mill by Graham Black 1983, R H Partnership Archs.
Vince, J. Discovering Windmills p5, 1977
V.C.H. Vol. V, p12
R.C.H.M. West Cambs. pp25, 26 Mon.22 Plate 57.
Pevsner. Buildings of England p308
Listing NGR: TL3118758004
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51047
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely (1973), 12
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire (1954), 308
Vince, J, Discovering Windmills (1977), 5
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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