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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 | Subjects: | Building Windmills | Temporal: | 1833 - 1899 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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