Description

YORK

SE55SE WINDMILL RISE
1112-1/1/1186 Holgate Windmill
14/06/54

II

Wind-powered corn mill, now disused. Built between 1770 and
1792 on a site occupied by windmills since the C15; repaired
as a landmark in 1939 after milling ceased. Brick, painted
with bitumen. Cap covered with painted steel plates.
PLAN: circular
EXTERIOR: 5 storeys high, battered up to the level of the 3rd
stage. At ground-floor level there are doorways with segmental
arches on the west and east sides, the western doorway now
blocked internally. Most of the windows have segmental heads.
To the left of each doorway there is a blocked ground-floor
window. The upper storeys have 6 staggered windows. The
brickwork is corbelled below the round cap, which has a ball
finial. The mill was unusual in having 5 sails, but these were
removed following gale damage in 1930 and only the wooden
stocks remain. The fantail was also removed, but projecting
main timbers remain.
INTERIOR: recorded by RCHM as having plastered internal walls,
softwood ladders, and 4 upper floors with pine beams and
stop-chamfered joists but with floorboards removed. Also
recorded as having machinery largely intact, with a pair of
millstones of gritstone and a second pair of French Burr
stones, an iron main drive, and stone-nuts with a metal frame
carrying wooden cogs.
This is the last surviving windmill of the many which once
functioned around the City of York.
(RCHME: City of York: London: 1972-: 57).

Listing NGR: SE5841951477

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Holgate Windmill at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5880199

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Recommended Books

• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)