1840
Tower mill built
Leadenham Mill was built in 1840 as a tarred red-brick five-storey tower mill for cereal milling.
Site overview
Leadenham Mill is a former tower cereal mill on Newark Road beside the A17 at Leadenham. It was built in 1840 as a tarred red-brick circular tower with a battered five-storey form. It ceased working in 1930.
Historic England Research Records noted in 2006 that the mill was reportedly being converted for use as a house. Earlier photographic records preserve the mill before later remodelling, and modern photographs show its continuing presence beside the main road. The mill formed one of a pair of Leadenham mills, with Lowfield Mill recorded locally as having six floors and four sails.
Leadenham Mill survives as a prominent former windmill structure within the village landscape.
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History
Leadenham Mill stands on Newark Road beside the A17 at Leadenham. It was built in 1840 for cereal milling and is described as a tarred red-brick tower with a circular battered form and five storeys. The mill represents the substantial tower-mill tradition of nineteenth-century Lincolnshire, where brick towers replaced or supplemented earlier timber post mills.
The mill worked until 1930. Historic records describe it as having ceased working in that year. A photographic record from 2001 identified the building as Leadenham Mill on Newark Road, and Historic England Research Records noted in 2006 that the mill was reportedly being converted for use as a house.
Local photographic collections record Leadenham as having a pair of mills, with Lowfield Mill built in 1840 with six floors and four sails. The surviving A17 tower preserves the visible form of Leadenham's wind-powered milling history after the end of its industrial use. Its later conversion allowed the former mill to remain a recognisable landmark in the village.
Timeline
1840–1930
Cereal mill in use
The tower mill worked as a cereal mill until 1930.
1930
Mill ceased working
Leadenham Mill ceased working in 1930.
2001
Mill photographed
Leadenham Mill on Newark Road was photographed on 25 October 2001.
2006
House conversion reported
The mill was reportedly being converted for use as a house in 2006.
Sources and records
Historic England Research Records
Historic England Images of England photograph
Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology Leadenham record
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive catalogue entry
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman
Historic England Images of England photograph
Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology Leadenham record
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive catalogue entry
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman