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Latitude: 51.3044 / 51°18'15"N
Longitude: -1.3891 / 1°23'20"W
OS Eastings: 442681
OS Northings: 156320
OS Grid: SU426563
Mapcode National: GBR 831.3MJ
Mapcode Global: VHC2F.VGZW
Plus Code: 9C3W8J36+Q9
Entry Name: Wind Engine and Former Mill House at Su 4268 5632
Listing Date: 17 June 1991
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1093065
English Heritage Legacy ID: 138485
ID on this website: 101093065
Location: Crux Easton, Basingstoke and Deane, Hampshire, RG20
County: Hampshire
District: Basingstoke and Deane
Civil Parish: Ashmansworth
Traditional County: Hampshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hampshire
Church of England Parish: Crux Easton St Michael and All Angels
Church of England Diocese: Winchester
Tagged with: Windmill Windpump Wind sawmill
The following structure shall be added to the list;
SU 45 NW ASHMANSWORTH CRUX EASTON
2/30
Wind engine and former
mill house at
SU 4268 5632
II
Wind engine and former mill house. C1891 engine made by John Wallis
Titt. Wind-engine of iron with steel tower; mill house of red brick
in English bond with half-hipped plain tile roof. Wind engine has
tapering, hexagonal,cross-braced tower approx 6 metres (20 feet
tall);brackets from former platform removed; sail frame with fantail
(sails removed); some remaining sheyting and cogged machinery. The
mill house has stepped eaves; gable end next to engine has blocked
low-level opening (through which are shaft from engine) and board door
below header brick arch; bricked-up opening in opposite gable;
inserted doorway at eaves on north side.
The sails were removed and put into storage in the 1960s; parts of the
machinery and of tower structure are lying on the ground beside it.
This wind-engine was of John Wallis Titt's 'Simplex' (approx 125
metres) engine design. It was used to pump up water from a 410 foot
well, and to grind corn.
J.K.Major, The Windmills of John Wallis Titt (The International
Molinological Society, 1977),pp.4,31 and 32.
Listing NGR: SU4268056320
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