Crown Mill

CROWN MILL, PRINCESS STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1388739
Date first listed:
20-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:
Crown Mill
Statutory Address:
CROWN MILL, PRINCESS STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1388739
Date first listed:
20-Oct-1986
Date of most recent amendment:
20-Dec-1999
List Entry Name:
Crown Mill
Statutory Address 1:
CROWN MILL, PRINCESS STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CROWN MILL, PRINCESS STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
Lincoln (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SK 97047 70336

Details

LINCOLN

SK97SE PRINCESS STREET
1941-1/2/311 Crown Mill
20/10/86
(Formerly Listed as:
PRINCESS STREET
(South side)
LeTall's Crown Mill)

II

Formerly known as: Flour mill windmill PRINCESS STREET.
Windmill and attached steam corn mill, now residential units.
Mid and Late C19, converted 1990-92. Red brick, with yellow
brick dressings to the steam mill, and slate roofs.
Round, battered windmill tower, 8 stages, has reglazed windows
on each stage and doors to east and west at ground level, all
segment headed.
Adjoining steam mill, to south, 4 storeys plus attics; 6 x 12
bays. Segment headed openings. South side has bays divided by
pilaster strips. Upper floors have 10 cast-iron glazing bar
casements. Fourth and eighth bays are blank. Ground floor has
unequally spaced openings with a flat headed cart entrance to
left, and blank fourth, eighth and tenth bays. North side has
4 windows on the upper floors, mainly renewed. On the ground
floor, a renewed door flanked by a single window to right, and
3 windows and a blank to left.
East end has 2 unequal gables each with 3 cast-iron glazing
bar casements on the upper floors and single windows in the
heads. West gable, topped with a lobster back cowl, has
irregular fenestration.
INTERIOR not accessible at time of survey. Understood not to
contain machinery or fittings related to its original use.
This building is the second tallest windmill in Lincolnshire.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 512).




Listing NGR: SK9704770336

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486200
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 512

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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