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Tower corn mill recorded
The site is recorded as a wind-powered tower mill used for corn milling.
Site overview
Birney Hill Mill, High Callerton, is a former tower corn mill in the parish of Ponteland. The mill is listed at Grade II as the windmill approximately 20 yards north of Forge Cottage. It dates from the eighteenth century and is built of dressed stone.
The tower is circular, tapering, and three storeys high, with a half-glazed door and several small square four-pane windows. At the time of the listing survey it was disused and without sails. Specialist mill records identify the site as Birney Hill Mill, High Callerton, a wind-powered tower corn mill.
The available evidence confirms its corn-milling function, eighteenth-century date, listed status, and surviving stone tower form, but does not give a full working chronology or final operating date.
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History
Birney Hill Mill stands at High Callerton within Ponteland parish. It was built as a wind-powered tower corn mill and is identified in specialist mill records as Birney Hill Mill, High Callerton. The surviving structure is an eighteenth-century dressed-stone tower. It is circular with tapering sides, rises to three storeys, and has a half-glazed door with several small square four-pane windows. By the time of statutory listing the mill was disused and had lost its sails, but its tower remained sufficiently complete to be designated at Grade II.
The listing was first made on 22 August 1986 under the name Windmill Approximately 20 Yards North of Forge Cottage. The record places the structure in Ponteland parish at Dissington March. Windmill World and Mills Archive identify the same site as a tower mill used for corn milling. The sources do not provide a detailed list of owners, millers, machinery, or the date when milling ceased. The standing tower is the principal surviving element of the former windmill.
Timeline
1700–1799
Stone tower mill built
The dressed-stone tower windmill was built in the eighteenth century.
1986
Listed at Grade II
The disused tower windmill north of Forge Cottage was first listed at Grade II.
Sources and records
Historic England list entry: Windmill Approximately 20 Yards North of Forge Cottage
Windmill World entry: High Callerton windmill
Mills Archive entry: Birney Hill Mill, High Callerton
Fabulous North page: Birney Hill Mill
Windmill World entry: High Callerton windmill
Mills Archive entry: Birney Hill Mill, High Callerton
Fabulous North page: Birney Hill Mill