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Corn milling use recorded
The mill is recorded as a tower corn mill at Ingham.
Site overview
Ingham Mill, also recorded as Lower Mill, is a tower corn mill at Ingham. It was built in 1872 at a cost of £1,000 and had six floors. Specialist windmill records identify it as a tower corn mill, and photographic records show the building after conversion into private domestic use.
It is distinct from Top Mill, another Ingham tower mill near Cliff Road. Lower Mill preserves the fabric and identity of a later nineteenth-century village corn mill, with its post-working history represented by domestic conversion rather than restoration as a working mill.
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History
Ingham Mill was built in 1872 as a six-floor tower mill at a cost of £1,000. It is also recorded as Lower Mill, distinguishing it from Top Mill, another tower mill at Ingham.
The mill worked as a tower corn mill, serving the agricultural community around Ingham. Its construction in the later nineteenth century places it among the later Lincolnshire tower mills, built after many older post mills had already disappeared or been replaced.
The mill later lost its working windmill function and was converted to domestic use in the 1960s. Photographic records from 2000 and 2020 show the former mill as a private house, retaining the tower form while no longer operating as a mill. The survival of Lower Mill is therefore significant as a converted windmill rather than as a restored working example. It preserves a clear physical link with Ingham's nineteenth-century corn-milling history.
Timeline
1872
Six-floor tower mill built
Ingham Lower Mill was built in 1872 with six floors at a cost of £1,000.
1960–1969
Converted to domestic use
Lower Mill was converted for domestic use in the 1960s.
2000
Private house recorded
Photographic records show the converted tower mill as a private house.
Sources and records
Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology photographic record
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive record
Geograph photographic record
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive record
Geograph photographic record
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman