1840
Tower mill constructed
The five-storey red-brick tower mill was built around 1840.
Site overview
Sutterton Mill is a Grade II listed tower mill on Wigtoft Road, Sutterton. Built around 1840, it is a tapering red-brick tower, partly tarred, with a plinth, moulded brick cornice, double doors, and segmental-headed windows. The tower has five storeys.
The mill worked until 1921, when its sails were removed. The listed description records that no machinery or stones remain. Its survival preserves the external fabric of a nineteenth-century Lincolnshire tower mill after the loss of its original working machinery and wind-powered function.
Map
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History
Sutterton Mill stands on the south side of Wigtoft Road, Sutterton. The listed building entry dates the tower to around 1840, while broader windmill lists record Sutterton Mill as a tower mill of 1855. The surviving structure is a five-storey tapering red-brick tower, partly tarred, with a plinth and moulded brick cornice.
Its planked double doors are reached by four steps, and single glazing-bar windows light the floors above, each set beneath a brick segmental head. The mill worked as a tower windmill until 1921, when the sails were removed. No machinery or stones remain inside.
It was listed at Grade II on 5 April 1988. The tower remains as a substantial nineteenth-century windmill survival in Sutterton, retaining the recognisable form of the former corn mill despite the loss of its working equipment.
Timeline
1921
Sails removed
The mill worked until 1921, when the sails were removed.
1988
Listed building designation
Sutterton Mill was listed at Grade II.
1999
Archive photograph taken
The tower was photographed for the Images of England project.
Sources and records
Historic England listed building entry: The Mill, Sutterton
Historic England Archive image record: The Mill, Wigtoft Road
Windmill World site entry: Sutterton windmill
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Historic England Archive image record: The Mill, Wigtoft Road
Windmill World site entry: Sutterton windmill
List of windmills in Lincolnshire