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Corn milling function recorded
The Albrighton tower mill is recorded as a wind-powered corn mill.
Site overview
Albrighton windmill stands on Windmill Lane in Albrighton and Donington, Shropshire. It is a tower corn mill converted to a house. The building is listed Grade II and is dated by internal and external datestones of 1768.
The surviving structure has a sandstone ashlar base with a stepped plinth, a red brick upper part strengthened by iron straps, and a projecting wooden upper storey. The listed description records three storeys, twentieth-century windows and entrance, and the loss of the original machinery. During the early twentieth century the windmill was owned by Colonel Thorneycroft of Tettenhall Towers, who added the upper storey as a lookout point for views towards the Shropshire Hills.
The site is now represented by a converted standing tower rather than an operational mill.
Map
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History
Albrighton windmill is recorded at the supplied coordinates on Windmill Lane, Albrighton. It was a tower mill used for corn milling and is now converted as a house. The building carries datestones of 1768, both externally and internally, providing the principal dated evidence for the mill.
Its surviving fabric includes a sandstone ashlar base with a stepped plinth, a red brick upper part strengthened by iron straps, and a projecting wooden upper storey. The listed description records three storeys, with twentieth-century windows and entrance. The interior machinery has been lost.
During the early twentieth century the windmill was owned by Colonel Thorneycroft of Tettenhall Towers near Wolverhampton. He built the upper storey as a lookout point from which to survey the distant Shropshire Hills. The windmill was listed Grade II on 26 September 1984.
Specialist mill records identify it as Albrighton tower mill and record its corn-milling function and house conversion. The consulted sources do not provide a full operational sequence or a final working date.
Timeline
1768
Datestone records windmill date
The converted tower mill retains internal and external datestones dated 1768.
1900–1930
Lookout storey added
During the early twentieth century Colonel Thorneycroft added the upper storey as a lookout point towards the Shropshire Hills.
1984
Grade II listing
The Old Windmill on Windmill Lane was listed Grade II.
Sources and records
Historic England listing: The Old Windmill, Windmill Lane, Albrighton and Donington
Windmill World entry: Albrighton windmill, Shropshire
Mills Archive record: Tower mill, Albrighton
Windmill World entry: Albrighton windmill, Shropshire
Mills Archive record: Tower mill, Albrighton