Site overview

The Windmill at Stone Road End is a surviving tower windmill in the Tuxford parish area. It was built in the mid nineteenth century for cereal processing and is listed at Grade II. The tower is four storeys high and built of tarred red brick with ashlar, dogtooth and raised brick eaves bands.

The ground floor has two window openings and two doorways, with a projecting stone platform at the north doorway. Each of the first, second, and third floors has two window openings. The mill was out of use by 1906, and the surviving tower is recorded as 38 feet high.

Specialist windmill records identify it as a tower mill, separate from the restored Mill Mount windmill in Tuxford.

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History

The Windmill at Stone Road End stands within Tuxford parish and is distinct from the restored Mill Mount windmill. It was a brick-built tower windmill constructed before 1840 or in the mid nineteenth century. The listed description records a four-storey tower of tarred red brick and ashlar, with dogtooth and raised brick eaves bands. On the ground floor there are two window openings and two doorways, the north doorway having a projecting stone platform. The three upper floors each have two window openings.

The mill was used for cereal processing. It was out of use by 1906, and the surviving tower is recorded as 38 feet high. It was first listed at Grade II on 1 February 1967, formerly under the name Stone Road End Windmill. The official list entry was subject to a minor amendment on 27 October 2020. The evidence confirms the standing tower, date range, listed status, and former milling function, but does not provide a detailed machinery inventory or named miller sequence.

Timeline

1833–1866

Tower mill built

The tower windmill was built before 1840 or in the mid nineteenth century.
1906

Mill out of use

The Stone Road End tower mill was out of use by 1906.
1967

Listed at Grade II

The Windmill at Stone Road End was first listed at Grade II.
2020

List entry amended

The official list entry for The Windmill was subject to a minor amendment.

Sources and records

Historic England list entry: The Windmill, Stone Road End
Windmill World entry: Tuxford tower mill
Mills Archive catalogue records for Tuxford tower mills
Historic England Research Records summary for Stone Road End tower mill
Tuxford village history summary