Maltby Windmill Maltby le Marsh · Lincolnshire · England

Maltby Windmill was built in 1841 by Saunderson's of Louth. The listed structure is a three-storey tapering tower mill of pitch-coated red brick, standing on Main Road at Maltby le Marsh. It represents the smaller end of the Lincolnshire tower-mill tradition, but its builder, date, form, and later alterations are well recorded.

The mill worked as a corn mill and had three pairs of stones. Directory evidence preserves part of its working life: Henry Whitworth was listed as corn miller in White's Directory of Lincolnshire in 1856, and Joseph Hoyles was listed in Kelly's Directory in 1919 as a miller using wind and steam. Historic photographs show the tower mill with all four sails, while later images record it after conversion.

The windmill worked by wind until 1952. Engine power was then used for a few more years, extending the site's milling life after wind working ended. Later alterations adapted the old mill for domestic and guest accommodation use. A fibreglass ogee cap was fitted in 1980, giving the converted tower a renewed windmill silhouette.

Maltby Windmill was listed at Grade II and the list entry was amended in 2019. The present building is a converted tower mill rather than a working mill, but its tarred brick tower, replica cap, and recorded machinery history preserve the identity of Maltby le Marsh's nineteenth-century wind-powered corn mill.