1821
Tower mill recorded
Weatheroak Hill Mill is recorded as a tower corn mill at Alvechurch by 1821.
Site overview
Weatheroak Hill Mill is a former tower corn mill at Alvechurch. Specialist mill records identify it as a wind-powered corn mill, and national windmill lists record it as a Worcestershire tower mill first mentioned in 1821. Long disused as a windmill, the tower was adapted as a water tower in the early twentieth century.
It later stood as a derelict capless tower before conversion to a house began in the 2000s. No machinery remained when the tower was bought for conversion. The surviving structure preserves the tower form of the former windmill within the Weatheroak Hill landscape.
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History
Weatheroak Hill Mill is the surviving tower windmill at Alvechurch. It is recorded as a wind-powered corn mill and appears in national Worcestershire windmill lists with an early nineteenth-century reference in 1821. The tower stands at Weatheroak Hill and has long been disused as a windmill.
The mill was later adapted for a different practical function, becoming a water tower in the early twentieth century. This reuse marked the end of its wind-powered milling identity and retained the tower as a functional structure after the loss of its original milling equipment. By the late twentieth century the former mill was recorded as a derelict capless tower.
Domestic conversion work took place in the 2000s. Photographic records from 2004 and 2006 show the tower before and during conversion, including scaffolding, new structural work, and roof works. No internal windmill machinery remained when it was purchased for conversion. Weatheroak Hill Mill now survives as a converted former tower mill, preserving the visible shell of an early nineteenth-century Worcestershire wind-powered corn mill.
Timeline
1900–1930
Adapted as water tower
The disused windmill tower was adapted as a water tower in the early twentieth century.
1977
Capless tower recorded
Photographic register material records the mill as a capless tower in 1977.
2004–2006
House conversion undertaken
The derelict tower was purchased for conversion to a house, with conversion works recorded in 2004 and 2006.
Sources and records
Mills Archive site record
Windmill World site entry
Windmill World mortgage case study
Geograph windmills gazetteer
Photographers Resource Worcestershire windmills list
List of windmills in the United Kingdom
Windmill World site entry
Windmill World mortgage case study
Geograph windmills gazetteer
Photographers Resource Worcestershire windmills list
List of windmills in the United Kingdom