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Tower heightened
The tower was later heightened from four floors to five floors.
Site overview
Ladd's Mill was a brick-built tower windmill on Mill Lane, North Hykeham. Built in 1824 with four floors, it was later heightened to five floors and worked with four sails. The mill worked by wind for almost exactly a century.
Later photographs record the structure after loss of its working form, and by 1977 it survived as a stump reduced to just above the original doorway. The mill is one of the windmills remembered in North Hykeham's local identity, with Mill Lane preserving the association of the former milling site.
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History
Ladd's Mill stood on Mill Lane in North Hykeham. It was built in 1824 as a brick tower windmill with four floors and was later heightened to five floors. During its working life it used four sails and formed one of the windmills associated with the historic manors of North Hykeham.
The mill worked by wind for almost exactly one hundred years before losing its original milling function. Later photographs show the tower after its working equipment had gone, and by 1977 the structure had been reduced to a stump, standing only a little above the original doorway. The surviving fabric preserves a reduced but still identifiable part of a nineteenth-century brick tower mill within the village landscape.
Mill Lane and local historical accounts continue to connect the site with North Hykeham's former wind-powered milling history.
Timeline
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Wind-powered working life
Ladd's Mill worked by wind with four sails for almost exactly one hundred years.
1824
Tower mill constructed
Ladd's Mill was built as a four-floor brick tower windmill on Mill Lane, North Hykeham.
1977
Reduced stump recorded
By 1977 the former tower mill survived as a stump reduced to just above the original doorway.
Sources and records
Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology catalogue entry: North Hykeham, Ladd's Mill
Ridges & Furrows article: Windmills of North Hykeham
Windmill World site entry: North Hykeham tower mill
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Ridges & Furrows article: Windmills of North Hykeham
Windmill World site entry: North Hykeham tower mill
List of windmills in Lincolnshire