Cardewlees Mill Cardewlees · Cumbria · England

Cardewlees Mill stands at Cardewlees near Dalston, on the lowland fringe south-west of Carlisle. It was a tower corn mill and forms part of the small group of Cumbrian windmills whose visible remains survived into the late twentieth century.

The working history is recorded principally through its type and function. The mill was wind-powered and used for corn milling. By the time of later photographic and specialist mill records, it had ceased to work as a mill and had been converted for residential use. A 1972 account of Cumberland windmills included Cardewlees among the sites with visible remains, and subsequent photographs recorded the former windmill beside the road. Local references describe the building as converted into apartments.

Cardewlees Mill is therefore a domestic reuse survival rather than a restored working mill. Its importance lies in the retention of a former tower mill within the built landscape of Cardewlees, where the adapted structure continues to mark the earlier wind-powered milling history of the area.