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Mill adapted as store
The tower windmill was later used as a store after the loss of its milling function.
Site overview
Stickney Mill is a Grade II listed tower windmill on Main Street, Stickney. Built in 1842 for William Balderston, it is a five-storey tarred red-brick tower mill later used as a store. The tower has an embattled parapet, rebuilt at a later date, and a plaque inscribed “W.B. 1842” above the second-floor opening.
The listed description records Yorkshire sash windows arranged vertically on the sides of the tower and no surviving internal milling machinery. Its survival preserves the external form of a mid-nineteenth-century Lincolnshire tower mill after loss of working machinery and original milling function.
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History
Stickney Mill was built in 1842 for William Balderston as a tower windmill on the east side of Main Street, Stickney. The mill is a five-storey tarred red-brick tower, with an embattled parapet that was rebuilt at a later date. Its exterior preserves a clear vertical arrangement of windows, including glazing-bar casements and Yorkshire sashes with segmental arches.
A plaque over the second-floor opening is inscribed “W.B. 1842”, linking the building to its original patron and construction date. The tower later ceased milling and was used as a store, with no internal milling machinery surviving. It was listed at Grade II on 17 March 1988.
The building remains a prominent survival of a village tower corn mill, with its historic external fabric and dated inscription still recording the mid-nineteenth-century phase of wind-powered milling in Stickney.
Timeline
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Milling machinery removed
No milling machinery survives inside the tower.
1842
Windmill constructed
Stickney Mill was built for William Balderston as a five-storey tarred red-brick tower windmill.
1988
Listed building designation
Stickney Mill was listed at Grade II.
Sources and records
Historic England listed building entry: Stickney Mill
Mills Archive site record
Windmill World site entry: Stickney windmill
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Mills Archive site record
Windmill World site entry: Stickney windmill
List of windmills in Lincolnshire