1814
Tower mill built
Sutton Windmill was built around 1814 as a tarred brick tower mill.
Site overview
Sutton Windmill is a surviving tower corn mill on Main Street, Sutton-on-Trent. It was built around 1814 and is a five-stage battered round tower of tarred brick. The tower has a stepped brick plinth, cogged and rebated eaves, unglazed segmental-headed windows, and an east doorway with a segmental head.
Historic listing records state that the interior retains main structural timbers. Specialist mill records identify it as a wind-powered corn mill, and archive photographs show the mill and mill house in 1909 and later derelict condition. The building was listed at Grade II in 1985 and later photographic material records it as converted to a private house.
The working machinery and final milling date are not identified in the consulted sources.
Map
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History
Sutton Windmill stands on Main Street at Sutton-on-Trent. It was built around 1814 as a wind-powered tower corn mill. The surviving structure is a five-stage battered round tower of tarred brick, with a stepped brick plinth and cogged and rebated eaves. Its openings are segmental-headed and unglazed in the listed description. The first stage has an east doorway, and each stage has a single window to north and south. Internally, main structural timbers were recorded.
Specialist windmill records identify the site as Sutton-on-Trent tower mill and confirm its corn-milling function. Archive material includes a 1909 image of the mill and mill house, a 1934 Muggeridge photograph, and later views of the derelict tower. The building was first listed at Grade II on 19 September 1985. By the early twenty-first century it had been converted to a private house, preserving the brick tower as the principal visible survival of the former mill.
Timeline
1909
Mill and mill house photographed
The mill and mill house were recorded in a 1909 image.
1934
Tower mill photographed
A black and white negative and print recorded the tower mill at Sutton-on-Trent.
1985
Listed at Grade II
Sutton Windmill was first listed at Grade II.
2005
Private house conversion recorded
The former brick tower mill was recorded as a private house.
Sources and records
Historic England list entry: Sutton Windmill
Windmill World entry: Sutton-on-Trent windmill
Mills Archive catalogue records for Sutton-on-Trent tower mill
University of Kent Muggeridge Collection record: Sutton On Trent, Notts.
Geograph image note: Sutton on Trent Windmill
Windmill World entry: Sutton-on-Trent windmill
Mills Archive catalogue records for Sutton-on-Trent tower mill
University of Kent Muggeridge Collection record: Sutton On Trent, Notts.
Geograph image note: Sutton on Trent Windmill