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Latitude: 52.3203 / 52°19'13"N
Longitude: 0.358 / 0°21'28"E
OS Eastings: 560807
OS Northings: 271752
OS Grid: TL608717
Mapcode National: GBR N8X.FBJ
Mapcode Global: VHJG3.5Y34
Plus Code: 9F4289C5+45
Entry Name: Downfield Windmill
Listing Date: 1 December 1951
Last Amended: 17 November 1983
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1331761
English Heritage Legacy ID: 48889
ID on this website: 101331761
Location: Down Field, East Cambridgeshire, CB7
County: Cambridgeshire
District: East Cambridgeshire
Civil Parish: Soham
Built-Up Area: Down Field
Traditional County: Cambridgeshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire
Church of England Parish: Soham St Andrew
Church of England Diocese: Ely
Tagged with: Windmill
In the entry for the following:
TL 67 SW SOHAM WINDMILL CLOSE
(South West Side)
9/46 Downfield Windmill
(formerly listed as
1.12.51 Old Windmill
Downfield under
Fordham Road)
the grade shall be upgraded to grade II*
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TL 67 SW
WINDMILL CLOSE
(South West Side)
9/46 Downfield Windmill
(formerly listed as
1.12.51 Old Windmill
Downfield under
Fordham Road)
II
Tower windmill originally a timber framed smock windmill built
1726 raised in 1860 and much rebuilt following a storm in 1889.
Restored 1975 and now a working mill. Brick, tarred. Four
storeys with capping rebuilt in metal sheeting but in original
ogee shape. Renewed fantail and two sails. Most of the
interior is of the C19, but there is some timber reused from the
1726 mill including part of the main shaft.
Alderton and Booker: Batsford Guide to Industrial Archaeology
of East Anglia.
Downfield Windmill, Soham (published privately).
Pevsner: Buildings of England, p.459.
Listing NGR: TL6080771752
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