Site overview

Scawby Mill is a surviving brick tower corn mill on Mill Lane, Scawby. The listed tower dates from about 1830, with a later nineteenth-century top section. It is a five-storey structure formed from a tapered lower tower and a cylindrical upper addition, retaining door and window openings, a damaged dentilled cornice, and mostly intact internal floors.

The mill had ceased operating by the early twentieth century. The structure later collapsed in 1994 but was rebuilt to resemble the earlier mill, and it now survives as a conspicuous former milling structure on the edge of the village.

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History

Scawby Mill stands on Mill Lane, south-east of Oakengates, at the edge of Scawby. The mill was built as a brick tower corn mill around 1830 and was later altered with the addition of a nineteenth-century upper section. Its listed fabric is described as a five-storey structure: a three-storey tapered round tower carrying a two-storey cylindrical top section.

The surviving elevations retain a two-fold board door with strap hinges beneath a segmental arch, together with square-headed and segmental-arched openings to the upper floors. Some openings retain four-pane or nine-pane casements, while others are blocked or have lost their frames. The tower had lost its roof by the time of listing, and the top of the structure was already damaged, though the dentilled brick cornice and much of the internal floor structure survived.

The mill had ceased working by the early twentieth century. A later heritage record describes the tower as having collapsed in 1994, after which it was rebuilt to resemble the original mill in the form of a house. The surviving structure preserves the outline and setting of Scawby's former tower corn mill within the village-edge landscape.

Timeline

1801–1900

Upper section added

A later nineteenth-century top section was added to the original tapered tower.
1830

Windmill constructed

The brick tower corn mill was built around 1830.
1901–1930

Wind working ended

The mill had ceased operating by the early twentieth century.
1987

Listed building designation

The windmill tower was listed at Grade II.
1994

Tower collapsed and was rebuilt

The building collapsed in 1994 and was subsequently rebuilt to resemble the original mill in the form of a house.

Sources and records

Historic England listed building entry: Windmill Tower Approximately 20 Metres South East of Oakengates
Historic England Research Records monument record
Windmill World site entry: Scawby windmill
Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology photograph catalogue