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West Mill, also known as Winter's Mill, is a former tower corn mill at Corringham in Lincolnshire. It stood at Mill House Farm and was one of two named Corringham tower mills, the other being East Mill or Little Corringham Mill. The mill is recorded as an early nineteenth-century tower corn mill.

Historic and photographic records show a three-storey tower which once carried four sails but was no longer operating by the beginning of the twentieth century. The surviving tower is listed at Grade II and remains a distinct part of Corringham's milling landscape.

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History

West Mill was the western of the two named tower windmills at Corringham. It is also known as Winter's Mill and stood at Mill House Farm on Mill Lane. The mill was built in the early nineteenth century as a wind-powered tower corn mill.

The mill was a three-storey tower mill and is recorded in historic photographic material with four sails. By the turn of the twentieth century it was no longer operating. Later photographic records show the surviving tower without its cap, reflecting the mill's decline from working windmill to preserved masonry remnant. The tower is designated at Grade II under the name Mill at Mill House Farm.

West Mill should be kept separate from East Mill, or Little Corringham Mill, at Harpswell Road. The two mills together preserve the record of Corringham's former wind-powered corn-milling sites. West Mill survives as a listed tower-mill remnant associated with Mill House Farm rather than as a complete or working windmill.

Timeline

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Cap lost

Later photographic records show the tower mill without its cap.
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Listed tower remains

The former corn mill survives as a tower-mill remnant at Mill House Farm.
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Four-sailed tower mill worked

The three-storey tower mill formerly carried four sails and was no longer operating by the turn of the twentieth century.
1800–1830

Tower mill built

West Mill was built in the early nineteenth century as a tower corn mill.
1972

Listed building designation

West Mill was listed as a protected historic building.

Sources and records

Historic England listed building entry: Mill at Mill House Farm
Planning Data listed building record: West Mill
Windmill World entry: West Mill, Corringham
Mills Archive record: West Mill, Corringham
Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology image note: Corringham, Winter's Mill