Chalton Windmill
| Chalton Windmill | |
|
Hampshire | |
|---|---|
 Chalton Mill | |
| Type: | Windmill |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU71601608 |
| Location: | 50°56’23"N, -0°58’56"W |
| History | |
| Built Early 19th century | |
| Windmill | |
| Information | |
| Condition: | Restored |
Chalton Windmill is a prominent windmill on top of Windmill Hill between Chalton and Clanfield in Hampshire. It is a tower mill, which has been converted to residential use.
The mill is a Grade II listed building.[1]
History
A mill has been recorded on the site since 1289.[2] A windmill was marked on John Norden's map dated 1607, John Speed's map dated 1611, Joan Blaeu's map dated 1645 and John Ogilby's map dated 1675.[3] The Chalton mill was built in the early nineteenth century.[1]
In the 1950s the windmill was threatened with demolition but a preservation order was placed on the mill by the local council.[4] Around 1978 permission was given for the mill to be incorporated into a new-build house.[5] The converted mill was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Petersfield Society.[4]
Description
Chalton windmill is a four-storey tower mill. It had four patent sails carried on a cast-iron windshaft and the cap was winded by a fantail. The millstones were driven overdrift.[5]
Outside links
- Chalton Windmill: Windmill World
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 National Heritage List 1094608: Chalton Windmill, Clanfield (Grade II listing)
- ↑ @[1]
- ↑ "Windmill, Clanfield". enve.port.ac.uk. http://www.envf.port.ac.uk/hantsgaz/hantsgaz/S0007828.HTM.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "The Petersfield Society Awards". The Petersfield Society. http://www.petersfieldsociety.org.uk/awards.php.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ellis, Monica, ed (1978). Water and Wind Mills in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Southampton: Southampton University Industrial Archaeology Group. pp. 60. ISBN 0-905280-01-6.