Whissendine Windmill Whissendine · Rutland · England

Whissendine Windmill stands on Melton Road in Whissendine, Rutland, at the supplied coordinates. It is a tower corn mill and is recorded as one of England's few remaining fully operational nineteenth-century windmills. The mill was built in 1809 by the Earls of Harborough of Stapleford Park to replace an earlier windmill.

Its tenant millers were Arnold and Hayes. In 1862 the mill was sold to Stephen Whitehead of Gedney, Lincolnshire, who refitted it. Thomas Hayes later bought the mill and subsequently sold it to Eli Kitchen while remaining as tenant.

Repairs were carried out by Elsam of Stamford. The mill worked until 20 April 1922, when it was damaged in a gale and was not repaired for wind operation. The listed building description records a six-storey tower with an additional storey in the cap, approximately 60 feet high, built of coursed squared ironstone rubble, with a domed cap and copper ball finial.

The interior retained a virtually complete machinery set, including dressing plant, four sets of grindstones, and a rare Wegmann porcelain roller mill of about 1880. Local mill information records a Wegmann roller mill dated 1877, together with a smutter, four sets of millstones, and three flour dressing machines. The sails and fantail were removed in the 1930s.

Later owners maintained the mill until it was sold to Nigel Moon in 1995. Restoration then provided a new top and four new sails, and the mill worked again by wind on 14 August 2009. The mill is Grade II* listed and remains in working use, producing flour.