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Latitude: 53.9561 / 53°57'21"N
Longitude: -1.1112 / 1°6'40"W
OS Eastings: 458419
OS Northings: 451477
OS Grid: SE584514
Mapcode National: GBR NQPP.7L
Mapcode Global: WHD9Y.XT1K
Plus Code: 9C5WXV4Q+CG
Entry Name: Holgate Windmill
Listing Date: 14 June 1954
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1256229
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465125
ID on this website: 101256229
Location: Holgate, York, North Yorkshire, YO26
County: York
Electoral Ward/Division: Holgate
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: York
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: York St Paul
Church of England Diocese: York
Tagged with: Windmill
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
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