Steven J Gibbs
Where Have my Sails Gone?
At Ullesthorpe.
This image has been photoshoped in the conversion to B&W some colours may have been altered to obtain a deeper contrast.Nothing has been added to this image
Ullesthorpe Windmill
Ullesthorpe Windmill, classified Grade ll, stands in a conservation area in the centre of the village, having been built from the subscriptions for shares raised from local people in 1800 primarily to provide flour for the poor of the village. Being on high ground, the mill is visible for some distance in all directions and is therefore a distinctive local landmark.
It ceased operation as a windmill in the 1890s. No photographs have been found showing it complete with its sails and reefing stage, but there are ones of a very similar and now vanished mill built in Lutterworth at the same time. At some point in the last years of operation of the Ullesthorpe mill, a pair of millstones was set up on the first floor (the original stones remaining on the third floor) driven by a steam engine in the yard.
The mill mechanism is unusual in never having been updated since it was built and is largely complete and in a good state of preservation. In nearly all mills iron-based mechanisms replaced wooden ones in the mid-19th century. The uniqueness of this feature is a major argument for the mill’s preservation.
The tower has several buildings abutting it. The two-storey extension behind is a lime-ash floored granary over a stable and a bucket “mother and daughter” privy. This building alone is described by the mill expert J.Kenneth Major as “Of incredible importance because of its survival”, the form of construction of the first floor being rare. In front is the former bakehouse, with a small office adjoining the door into the mill.
The rectangular plot also contains a pigsty with a copper for boiling the feed and, most importantly, the miller’s cottage. This is well preserved and has been continuously inhabited. Together, the buildings contained within this small plot are a rare surviving example of the close inter-dependency of the different activities that were driven by the process of milling, whilst nearby is the village granary where the grain harvest was stored.
source;...www.ullesthorpewindmill.org.uk
Where Have my Sails Gone?
At Ullesthorpe.
This image has been photoshoped in the conversion to B&W some colours may have been altered to obtain a deeper contrast.Nothing has been added to this image
Ullesthorpe Windmill
Ullesthorpe Windmill, classified Grade ll, stands in a conservation area in the centre of the village, having been built from the subscriptions for shares raised from local people in 1800 primarily to provide flour for the poor of the village. Being on high ground, the mill is visible for some distance in all directions and is therefore a distinctive local landmark.
It ceased operation as a windmill in the 1890s. No photographs have been found showing it complete with its sails and reefing stage, but there are ones of a very similar and now vanished mill built in Lutterworth at the same time. At some point in the last years of operation of the Ullesthorpe mill, a pair of millstones was set up on the first floor (the original stones remaining on the third floor) driven by a steam engine in the yard.
The mill mechanism is unusual in never having been updated since it was built and is largely complete and in a good state of preservation. In nearly all mills iron-based mechanisms replaced wooden ones in the mid-19th century. The uniqueness of this feature is a major argument for the mill’s preservation.
The tower has several buildings abutting it. The two-storey extension behind is a lime-ash floored granary over a stable and a bucket “mother and daughter” privy. This building alone is described by the mill expert J.Kenneth Major as “Of incredible importance because of its survival”, the form of construction of the first floor being rare. In front is the former bakehouse, with a small office adjoining the door into the mill.
The rectangular plot also contains a pigsty with a copper for boiling the feed and, most importantly, the miller’s cottage. This is well preserved and has been continuously inhabited. Together, the buildings contained within this small plot are a rare surviving example of the close inter-dependency of the different activities that were driven by the process of milling, whilst nearby is the village granary where the grain harvest was stored.
source;...www.ullesthorpewindmill.org.uk