1800–1830
Tower mill built
Eakring Windmill was built in the early nineteenth century as a brick tower corn mill.
Site overview
Eakring Windmill is a surviving brick tower windmill on Wellow Road, Eakring. It was built in the early nineteenth century and functioned as a corn mill. The listed structure is a round battered brick tower with a stepped plinth, cogged eaves, and five stages.
It is roofless, with segmental-headed unglazed window openings and a north-west doorway. Interior survival recorded in the listing includes a centre post, two floors, and a bed stone in place. The mill was first listed as Grade II on 22 May 1974 and the listing was amended on 28 April 1986.
Modern specialist records identify the site as a tower corn mill and locate it at the supplied coordinates. The available evidence does not provide a final working date or a detailed ownership history, but it clearly records a surviving early nineteenth-century mill tower with some internal fabric.
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History
Eakring Windmill stands on Wellow Road at Eakring. Coordinate verification places the tower at Eakring, not Southwell, and the National Grid Reference SK 67248 62449 matches the supplied position. The mill was built in the early nineteenth century as a tower corn mill.
Its surviving form is a round battered brick tower of five stages, built with a stepped plinth and cogged eaves. The tower is roofless, and its window openings are unglazed with segmental rubbed-brick heads. A doorway survives on the north-west side.
The listing description records several important internal survivals: a centre post, two floors, and a bed stone remain in place. These details show that the structure is not merely an empty shell, although the cap, sails, and windshafting are no longer recorded as present. The windmill was first listed as Grade II on 22 May 1974, with a later amendment to the list entry on 28 April 1986.
No confirmed closure date, ownership sequence, or detailed record of machinery removal has been identified in the consulted sources.
Timeline
1974
Listed building status recorded
Eakring Windmill was first listed as a Grade II listed building.
1986
Listing amended
The National Heritage List entry for Eakring Windmill was amended.
Sources and records
Historic England National Heritage List for England entry: Eakring Windmill
Windmill World entry: Eakring windmill, Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire Historic Environment Record entry for Eakring windmill
Historic England Archive Images of England record for Eakring Windmill
List of windmills in Nottinghamshire
Windmill World entry: Eakring windmill, Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire Historic Environment Record entry for Eakring windmill
Historic England Archive Images of England record for Eakring Windmill
List of windmills in Nottinghamshire