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Tower corn mill operated
Morcott windmill is recorded as a tower mill used for corn milling.
Site overview
Morcott windmill is a former wind-powered corn mill on Barrowden Road in Morcott, Rutland. The recorded structure is a tower mill, and the surviving building is listed Grade II. The mill had been reduced to a truncated tower before being rebuilt as a facsimile of an earlier structure and adapted as a dwelling.
Its present form includes a tall tapering brick tower, a wooden gallery at first-floor level, an onion-dome cap, sails, and a tail piece. Specialist mill records describe it as a tower corn mill rebuilt from a truncated tower into a dummy mill for residential purposes. The sources consulted do not provide a full operating chronology, machinery inventory, or final working date.
The site is therefore best documented through its surviving rebuilt form, its corn-milling function, and its later residential reuse.
Map
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History
Morcott windmill stands on Barrowden Road in Morcott, Rutland. The supplied coordinates correspond with Morcott, not Uppingham. The mill is recorded as a tower mill used for corn milling.
The earlier working mill was later reduced to a truncated tower, and the surviving structure was subsequently rebuilt as a facsimile of the earlier windmill. It is now a dwelling. The listed building description records a tall tapering brick tower of four stages, with cambered-headed window openings, glazing bars, a cantilevered wooden gallery at first-floor level, a new porch to the ground floor, an onion-dome cap, sails, and a tail piece.
The building was listed Grade II on 9 August 1984. The sources identify the mill's type, function, location, listed status, and residential conversion, but they do not provide a continuous operating history or a dated sequence for the loss of machinery, truncation, or rebuilding. The present significance of the site lies in the survival of the rebuilt tower form and its protected status as a former windmill.
Timeline
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Rebuilt as residential facsimile
The truncated tower was rebuilt as a facsimile of the earlier structure and converted to residential use.
1984
Grade II listing
The windmill on Barrowden Road, Morcott, was listed Grade II.
Sources and records
Historic England listing: Windmill, Barrowden Road, Morcott
Windmill World entry: Morcott windmill, Rutland
Mills Archive record: Tower mill, Morcott
Rutland County Museum article: Windmills of my Mind
Windmill World entry: Morcott windmill, Rutland
Mills Archive record: Tower mill, Morcott
Rutland County Museum article: Windmills of my Mind