1800–1830
Post mill built
Shelford Mill was built in the early nineteenth century as a post windmill.
Site overview
Shelford Mill is the surviving base of a post windmill on Shelford Road, Newton. The mill was built in the early nineteenth century and functioned as a corn mill. The listed remains consist of a red-brick, circular-plan, two-storey buttressed base with dogtooth eaves.
The ground floor has a segmental-arched doorway and a single window opening, with a further window opening above. Specialist windmill records identify the site as Shelford Mill, Newton, and record modern photographs showing the surviving windmill base in the landscape. The building was first listed as Grade II on 13 November 1986.
The available evidence establishes the early nineteenth-century post-mill base, its corn-milling function, and later survival, but does not provide a detailed account of millers, machinery, or final operation.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Shelford Mill stands on Shelford Road at Newton. The supplied coordinates identify the Newton post-mill site rather than Bingham. The mill was built in the early nineteenth century as a post windmill and is recorded as a corn mill.
Only the base survives. The listed remains are built of red brick, circular in plan, two storeys high, and buttressed, with dogtooth eaves. The ground floor has a segmental-arched doorway and a single window opening, with another window opening above.
Specialist records identify the site as Shelford Mill, Newton, and modern photographs record the surviving base. Historic England archive material also includes a 1934 photograph of Shelford post mill viewed from the south. The structure was first listed as Grade II on 13 November 1986.
The surviving sources do not identify a precise construction date beyond the early nineteenth century, nor do they provide a confirmed final working date, full machinery inventory, or ownership chronology.
Timeline
1934
Post mill photographed
A historic photograph recorded Shelford post mill viewed from the south.
1986
Listed building status recorded
The windmill base on Shelford Road was first listed as a Grade II listed building.
Sources and records
Historic England National Heritage List for England entry: The Windmill, Shelford Road, Newton
Windmill World entry: Newton windmill, Nottinghamshire
Mills Archive database entry: Shelford Mill, Newton
Historic England Archive photographic record: Shelford post mill
Geograph photographic records for Shelford Mill and Newton Mill
List of windmills in Nottinghamshire
Windmill World entry: Newton windmill, Nottinghamshire
Mills Archive database entry: Shelford Mill, Newton
Historic England Archive photographic record: Shelford post mill
Geograph photographic records for Shelford Mill and Newton Mill
List of windmills in Nottinghamshire