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Base converted as The Round House
The base of Alcock's Mill survived as a house-converted building known locally as The Round House.
Site overview
The Round House at Forthampton is the converted base of Alcock's Mill, a former tower mill. The surviving base is built of local shaly stone and stands beside a nineteenth-century brick cottage. Forthampton has a long windmill record, with Tewkesbury Abbey owning two windmills there in 1291 and later references to windmills in the parish.
Alcock's Mill was associated with the mill worked by John Alcock in the seventeenth century and was recorded in 1859 near Alcock's Farm. Its base later became known locally as The Round House. Modern windmill records describe the survival as a house-converted base remnant.
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History
The Round House at Forthampton is the surviving base of Alcock's Mill. It is a former tower mill, now reduced and converted, with the base built of local shaly stone beside a nineteenth-century brick cottage.
Forthampton has a long windmill history. Tewkesbury Abbey owned two windmills in the parish in 1291. A windmill mentioned in 1636 was probably the one later worked by John Alcock in 1649 and 1672. By 1859 Alcock's Mill was recorded near Alcock's Farm, and its base was later known as the Round House.
Modern site records identify the Round House as a tower mill survival and describe it as a house-converted base. A Geograph photograph in 2010 recorded the building and noted its identity as the base of Alcock's windmill. The site therefore preserves a reduced but visible survival of one of Forthampton's wind-powered milling structures, with the masonry base incorporated into later domestic use.
Timeline
1291
Windmills owned by Tewkesbury Abbey
Tewkesbury Abbey owned two windmills at Forthampton in 1291.
1636–1672
Alcock windmill record
A windmill mentioned in 1636 was probably the mill worked by John Alcock in 1649 and 1672.
1859
Alcock's Mill recorded near Alcock's Farm
Alcock's Mill was recorded near Alcock's Farm, with the surviving base later known as the Round House.
2010
The Round House photographed
The house-converted base of Alcock's Mill was photographed at Forthampton.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Windmill World news item
British History Online parish history for Forthampton
Geograph photographic record
Gloucestershire Historical Studies article
Windmill World news item
British History Online parish history for Forthampton
Geograph photographic record
Gloucestershire Historical Studies article