Description

SY6871
969-1/4/26
21/09/78

PORTLAND
EASTON
Windmill at NGR SY 69077128
(Formerly Listed as:
EASTON
Windmill about 980 yds south-east of St Georges Reforne)

II

Remains of former windmill. Probably C17. Rough coursed
rubble, roofless. Cylindrical shaft, slightly tapered, c 4m
diameter and c 7m high. Sundry openings at three levels,
mostly with flush single stone quoins, lintols and weathered
cills to small upright rectangular lights. Blocked door to SE
side, and door opening to NE to slight basket-arch head. An
inserted concrete floor slab on corrugated shuttering probably
from World War Two. One of two remaining disused windmills on
the island, shown on the Hutchins map of 1710.
(Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Dorset: London:
1970-: 253).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570901

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Recommended Books

• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)