1875
Windmill constructed
Stallingborough Windmill was built in 1875 as a tower corn mill on the edge of the village.
Site overview
Stallingborough Windmill is a tower windmill on the edge of Stallingborough village. Built in 1875, it was a wind-powered tower mill serving as a corn mill. Later records show the mill after the loss of working equipment and after conversion to domestic use.
It is described as the only fully converted windmill in North East Lincolnshire and one of a small number of such converted mills nationally. Photographic records preserve stages in its later history, including a derelict state with fanstage and a partly collapsed cap in 1964, house conversion by the late 1970s and early 1980s, and a later tower with replica cap.
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History
Stallingborough Windmill was built in 1875 on the edge of Stallingborough village. It was a wind-powered tower corn mill, positioned within open countryside but close to the transport and industrial corridors of North East Lincolnshire. Its later history is recorded through twentieth-century photographs and mill records.
By 1964 the mill was derelict, retaining a fanstage and a partly collapsed cap. Later images show the tower converted for domestic use by 1978 and 1983. By the early twenty-first century the house-converted tower had a replica cap, preserving the recognisable external form of the former windmill after the loss of its original working function.
The building is notable as a fully converted windmill in North East Lincolnshire, retaining the tower as a visible landmark within the village-edge landscape.
Timeline
1964
Derelict mill photographed
Photographs record the mill derelict with fanstage and a partly collapsed cap.
1978–1983
Converted tower recorded
Photographs record the tower after conversion to domestic use in the late twentieth century.
2000–2009
Replica cap recorded
Later photographs show the house-converted tower with a replica cap.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry: Stallingborough windmill
Mills Archive site record
Guy Blythman Lincolnshire windmill photograph addenda
Mills Archive site record
Guy Blythman Lincolnshire windmill photograph addenda