Lacey Green Windmill
Lacey Green, Nr Princes
Risborough, Buckinghamshire
Restored smock mill.
Dates from around 1650, making this the oldest smock windmill in the
country.
Listed building information says "Smock-mill.
Mid-late C17, restored 1970s. Timber frame with weatherboard cladding, now
with C20 strengthening and weatherboarded outer skin. Weatherboard is
carried over curved pitches of cap. Early C19 brick base. Octagonal, with
sloping sides. 4 storeys. Base has 2 board doors and 2 paired wooden
casements, and is set partly below ground level. Upper floors have barred
wooden windows on 2 opposite sides, all set like raking dormers. 2 board
doors to first floor. Revolving cap with 4 C20 wooden sails, the fantail is in
the process of restoration. Internally the frame has large roughly curved braces
between cant posts. Main machinery is complete with main drive shaft and wallower, spur wheel, windshaft and brake wheel, the wheel spokes morticed
into the shafts. 2 sets of mill-stones in rebuilt casing but with original
tentering gear. Rebuilt shoots; bins and flour dressers brought from
elsewhere. Mill said to have been moved from original site at Chesham in
1821".
Preservation society says the talk of a
move from a previous place is wrong.
See its website for more information.
Photo on the right is from farm
drive. |
Photo by
Andrew Smith
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Further information Grid
Planning Grid
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Location: |
Lacey Green Windmill, Lacey Green, Nr Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire |
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Grid Reference: |
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819008 |
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Getting there: |
The
windmill is at the north end of the village of Lacey Green. The village is
on the Chiltern escarpment, 2 miles south of Princes Risborough.
Behind ‘The
Whip’ pub, in Lacey Green. |
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Access: |
When not open should be able to be
photographed from entrance to farm drive or from pink Rd. |
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Parking: |
It is
necessary for visitors to park in Pink Road, and then walk up the path to
the windmill. |
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Things To Do,
See and Photograph: |
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Address: |
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Postcode: |
HP27 0PG or
HP27 0QQ |
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Telephone: |
Michael Hardy - 01844 275871 |
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Opening times: |
2.30pm
to 5.30pm on Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays from Sunday 4th May to Sunday
28th September 2008. |
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Charges: |
£1.50
per adult, and 75p per child (under 16). |
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CIN Page Ref: |
lacey_green |
Date Updated: 04/2008 |
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