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House and hotel conversion
The tower mill was converted to domestic use and was later recorded as having been used as part of a hotel.
Site overview
Stonepits Quarry Mill is a former tower corn mill at Inkberrow. Specialist mill records identify it as a wind-powered corn mill later converted to a house, with additional records describing the building as having been used as part of a hotel. A 1936 photographic record names the structure as Stonepits Quarry Mill or Old Mill and shows it converted into a house with castellated features.
The cap, sails, and working machinery no longer survive as a working windmill, but the converted tower remains a recognisable survival of Inkberrow's wind-powered milling history.
Map
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History
Stonepits Quarry Mill is a tower corn mill at Inkberrow. It is one of the recorded Worcestershire tower mills associated with Inkberrow, separate from the surviving tower at Holberrow Green. Specialist mill records identify it as a wind-powered corn mill and place it at Stonepits Quarry.
The mill had passed out of wind-powered use by the time of its modern photographic record. A photograph taken on 31 May 1936 described it as Stonepits Quarry Mill or Old Mill and showed the former tower mill converted into a house with turrets resembling a castle. Later mill gazetteer records describe it as a house-converted tower mill and also note that it had been run as a hotel.
The surviving site is therefore a converted tower-mill structure rather than a complete working windmill. Its wind-powered machinery, cap, sails, and original milling equipment are no longer represented as an operational installation. The value of the site is in the retained tower form and the documented continuity of the former mill through residential and commercial reuse.
Timeline
1840
Tower mill built
Stonepits Quarry Mill is recorded as a tower corn mill built around 1840.
1936
Converted tower photographed
A photographic record described Stonepits Quarry Mill or Old Mill as a tower windmill converted into a house with castellated features.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
University of Kent Muggeridge Collection record
Photographers Resource Worcestershire windmills list
List of windmills in the United Kingdom
Mills Archive site record
University of Kent Muggeridge Collection record
Photographers Resource Worcestershire windmills list
List of windmills in the United Kingdom