1801–1830
Tower mill constructed
The red-brick tower corn mill was built in the early nineteenth century.
Site overview
Windmill at Mill Garage, also known as Key's Toft Mill, is a former tower corn mill at Wainfleet St Mary. The Grade II listed tower dates from the early nineteenth century, with later nineteenth-century rebuilding of its battlemented top. It is a three-storey red-brick tower, formerly used as a store room, with moulded eaves, battlements, a west plank doorway, and small casement windows.
Specialist mill sources identify it as Key's Toft Mill and a tower corn mill. Later photographs record the tower with a castellated top and conversion into part of a house with a dummy cap.
Map
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History
Windmill at Mill Garage stands on St Michael's Lane at Wainfleet St Mary and is identified in specialist mill records as Key's Toft Mill. It was built as a tower corn mill in the early nineteenth century. The listed tower is red brick with moulded eaves and battlements, the battlements having been rebuilt in the late nineteenth century.
It is a three-storey structure with a plank doorway to the west and small casement windows arranged vertically above and to the north and south sides. By the time of listing it was recorded as a former tower mill used as a store room. Photographic records from the twentieth century show the castellated tower, and later material records the tower converted as part of a house with a dummy cap.
The surviving Grade II listed structure preserves the reduced but recognisable form of Wainfleet St Mary's former tower corn mill.
Timeline
1801–1900
Battlements rebuilt
The battlemented top of the tower was rebuilt in the late nineteenth century.
1934
Castellated tower photographed
Photographic records show the former mill as a castellated tower in the twentieth century.
1977
Castellated tower recorded
The former mill tower was photographed with its castellated top.
1987
Listed building designation
Windmill at Mill Garage was listed at Grade II.
2000–2009
House conversion recorded
Later photographs show the tower converted as part of a house with a dummy cap.
Sources and records
Historic England listed building entry: Windmill at Mill Garage
Windmill World site entry: Wainfleet St Mary windmill
Mills Archive catalogue record: Key's Toft Mill, Wainfleet St Mary
Guy Blythman addenda to Lincolnshire windmill photographs
Geograph photograph record: Another Wainfleet windmill
Windmill World site entry: Wainfleet St Mary windmill
Mills Archive catalogue record: Key's Toft Mill, Wainfleet St Mary
Guy Blythman addenda to Lincolnshire windmill photographs
Geograph photograph record: Another Wainfleet windmill