1780–1799
Tower mill built
Coddington Windmill was built in the late eighteenth century as a brick tower corn mill.
Site overview
Coddington Windmill is a surviving brick tower windmill on Balderton Lane, Coddington. It was built in the late eighteenth century and extended in the mid nineteenth century. The mill functioned as a corn mill, and the surviving fabric shows a four-storey red-brick tower, with the lower two storeys rising at a steeper angle than the upper part.
Later records describe irregular fenestration with segmental-arched openings and note that the structure lacks glazing, door, and cap. The mill was already a recognised historic structure by the mid twentieth century and was first listed as Grade II on 25 February 1952. Historic photographs from the twentieth century show the tower and surviving mill features, including interior millstone detail.
The available sources do not provide a final working date, but they establish a late eighteenth-century tower mill, later enlarged, surviving as a listed shell.
Map
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History
Coddington Windmill stands on Balderton Lane at Coddington, west of Newark. The supplied coordinates match the recorded windmill location and the National Grid Reference SK 83206 53562, placing the site in Coddington rather than in Newark-on-Trent itself. The mill was a tower corn mill.
Its surviving fabric indicates a late eighteenth-century origin, with the lower two storeys forming the earlier part of the tower and a mid nineteenth-century extension above. The tower is built of red brick and rises to four storeys. Its openings are irregularly arranged and have segmental arches.
The listing description records that the mill lacks glazing, door, and cap, showing that the wind-powered working apparatus had already been removed by the time of the listing record. Twentieth-century photographic records show exterior views of the tower and interior millstone detail, confirming the survival of at least some internal milling fabric at the time those images were taken. The building was first listed as Grade II on 25 February 1952.
No confirmed final date of operation or detailed ownership chronology has been identified in the consulted sources.
Timeline
1830–1869
Tower extended
The mill was extended in the mid nineteenth century, with the upper part added above the earlier lower storeys.
1952
Listed building status recorded
Coddington Windmill was first listed as a Grade II listed building.
Sources and records
Historic England National Heritage List for England entry: Coddington Windmill
Windmill World entry: Coddington windmill, Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire Historic Environment Record entry for Coddington windmill
Historic England Archive Images of England records for Coddington Windmill
List of windmills in Nottinghamshire
Windmill World entry: Coddington windmill, Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire Historic Environment Record entry for Coddington windmill
Historic England Archive Images of England records for Coddington Windmill
List of windmills in Nottinghamshire