Site overview
Ketton Windmill is a surviving tower corn mill on Empingham Road, Ketton. The supplied coordinates match the Ketton windmill rather than Stamford. The mill is an eighteenth-century tower mill built of squared stone and rendered.
It is a squat conical four-storey tower on a plinth, with door and window openings at ground-floor level and further window openings on the upper stages. No internal floors or machinery remain. Specialist windmill records state that the mill stands within land owned by Castle Cement, but that the field containing it is excluded from limestone quarrying.
The building was first listed as Grade II on 17 December 1984. The sources establish the mill type, date, structure, condition, legal protection, and current land context, but no final working date has been identified.
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History
Ketton Windmill stands on the west side of Empingham Road at Ketton. The supplied coordinates match the recorded windmill at Ketton, not Stamford. The mill was built in the eighteenth century as a tower corn mill.
It is built of squared stone and rendered, with a squat conical form rising four storeys from a plinth. The ground floor has two door openings and two window openings. Further window openings are recorded to the south, west, and east at first-floor level and to the south and north at second- and third-floor levels.
The openings are set beneath timber lintels. The listed description states that no internal floors or machinery remain, showing that the surviving structure is a shell rather than a complete working mill. The mill was first listed as Grade II on 17 December 1984.
Specialist records add that it lies within land owned by Castle Cement, but that the field containing the mill is explicitly excluded from limestone quarrying. The consulted sources do not provide a final working date or ownership chronology before the modern land context.
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Listed building status recorded
Standing tower photographed
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Ketton windmill, Rutland
Industrial History Online record: Windmill, Empingham Road, Ketton
Historic England Archive photographic record: Windmill, Empingham Road, Ketton
Rutland County Museum article: Windmills of my Mind