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Original cap removed
Historic England records the tower mill as surviving without its original cap.
Site overview
Mill is the Historic England listed name for the former tower mill on Long Lane, Linton. The official list entry describes it as a tower mill dated 1836 on a limestone plaque above the entrance. It is a gault-brick tower without its original cap, with round-headed windows containing cast-iron glazing bars and a recessed doorway beneath a round-headed arch.
The tower is flanked by single-storey outbuildings with slate roofs. Capturing Cambridge repeats the listed description, and the Cambridgeshire windmill survey records it as Mill, Linton, a Grade II listed windmill at Long Lane. Windmill World identifies the site as Linton tower mill.
The consulted sources do not provide a detailed working history, millers, machinery inventory, closure date or conversion history. The building survives as a listed nineteenth-century tower-mill structure.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
The former windmill on Long Lane at Linton is officially listed by Historic England as Mill. Windmill World identifies it as Linton tower mill, and a Cambridgeshire windmill survey records it as Mill, Linton. The listed building description gives the date as 1836, recorded on a limestone plaque above the entrance.
The structure is a gault-brick tower mill without its original cap. It has round-headed windows with cast-iron glazing bars and a recessed doorway with a round-headed arch and boarded door. Historic England also records single-storey outbuildings with slate roofs flanking the tower.
The Cambridgeshire Watermills and Windmills at Risk survey records the site as Grade II, with the address Long Lane, Linton, and notes that during its working life the mill was in the county of Essex. The accessible consulted sources do not identify the builder, millwright, first owner, working millers, original sails, cap, windshaft, stones, internal gearing or the date when the mill stopped working. The surviving evidence therefore supports a restrained account: an 1836 tower mill, later deprived of its original cap, with its gault-brick tower and adjoining outbuildings retained as a listed historic structure.
Timeline
1836
Tower mill dated
The former tower mill is dated 1836 on a limestone plaque above the entrance.
1985
Grade II listing
The former tower mill on Long Lane was listed at Grade II.
Sources and records
Historic England listed building entry for Mill, Linton
Capturing Cambridge article on Mill, Long Lane, Linton
Windmill World entry for Linton windmill
Cambridgeshire Watermills and Windmills at Risk survey
Mills Archive material for Linton tower mill
Capturing Cambridge article on Mill, Long Lane, Linton
Windmill World entry for Linton windmill
Cambridgeshire Watermills and Windmills at Risk survey
Mills Archive material for Linton tower mill