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Roofless tower remains
The tower survives without its sails and roof.
Site overview
Harby Windmill is a surviving tower mill at Harby in Nottinghamshire. The supplied coordinates identify the Harby tower rather than Doddington. The listed remains are an early nineteenth-century red brick tower mill in English garden wall bond.
The tower has four stages, a stepped plinth, and segmental-arched heads to the door and two-light window openings. The windmill has lost its sails and roof, leaving the tower as the main surviving structure. It was first listed at Grade II on 31 August 1979.
Specialist mill records identify the site as a tower mill. The available evidence confirms the tower form, early nineteenth-century date, listed status, and present roofless survival, but does not provide a detailed working chronology, machinery inventory, or final operating date.
Map
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History
Harby Windmill stands at Harby and survives as the remains of an early nineteenth-century tower mill. The structure is built of red brick in English garden wall bond and rises through four stages. Its architectural detail is simple and functional, with a stepped plinth and segmental-arched heads to the doorway and two-light windows. By the time of statutory listing the windmill had lost both its sails and roof, leaving the brick tower as the surviving historic element.
The mill was first listed at Grade II on 31 August 1979 under the name Remains of Harby Windmill. Later specialist windmill records continue to identify it as Harby tower mill. The sources establish its tower-mill type, early nineteenth-century date, material, and surviving roofless condition. They do not identify the original miller, a full ownership sequence, machinery details, or the exact date when milling ceased.
Timeline
1800–1830
Tower mill built
The red brick tower mill was built in the early nineteenth century.
1979
Listed at Grade II
The remains of Harby Windmill were first listed at Grade II.
Sources and records
Historic England list entry: Remains of Harby Windmill
Windmill World entry: Harby windmill
Mills Archive catalogue records for Harby tower mill
Historic England Archive image record: Remains of Harby Windmill
Windmill World entry: Harby windmill
Mills Archive catalogue records for Harby tower mill
Historic England Archive image record: Remains of Harby Windmill