1787
Tower mill built
Waterloo Mill was built at Hadnall as a wind-powered tower corn mill.
Site overview
Waterloo Mill is the former wind-powered corn mill at Hadnall, now known as The Round House. The site is recorded as a tower mill, with a listed address at 5 Mill Lane, Hadnall. The mill was built in 1787 and later remodelled in the nineteenth century, altered in the twentieth century, and converted into domestic use.
The surviving building is a red-brick circular structure with tapering sides, two storeys, and Gothic-style detailing. Its doorway and round-headed casement windows contain Y-tracery, and the upper floor includes blind arrow loops, a datestone, and blocked square openings. The building was first listed as Grade II on 29 October 1986.
The available evidence establishes the mill type, function, construction date, conversion, and protected status, but not a full machinery or ownership sequence.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Waterloo Mill stands on Mill Lane at Hadnall. The supplied coordinates match the recorded Hadnall tower mill rather than Shawbury. The mill was built in 1787 as a wind-powered corn mill.
It is recorded in specialist mill sources as Waterloo Mill and in the statutory listing as The Round House. The building was later remodelled in the nineteenth century, altered in the twentieth century, and converted into a house. Its surviving form is a circular red-brick structure with tapering sides and two storeys.
The architectural treatment is Gothic in character, with a doorway and round-headed casement windows containing Y-tracery. At upper level the building has blind arrow loops, a datestone, and blocked square openings. Archive records from 2006 identify the building at 5 Mill Lane as an industrial wind-power site later in domestic use.
The building was first listed as Grade II on 29 October 1986. The consulted sources do not provide a full miller chronology, machinery inventory, or final working date, but they establish its identity as a former Hadnall tower corn mill surviving as a converted listed building.
Timeline
1800–1899
Mill remodelled
The former windmill was remodelled in the nineteenth century.
1986
Listed building status recorded
The Round House at Hadnall was first listed as a Grade II listed building.
2006
Converted mill photographed
The former windmill, then known as The Round House, was photographed as a listed building in domestic use.
Sources and records
Historic England National Heritage List for England entry: The Round House, Hadnall
Historic England Archive Images of England record: The Round House, Hadnall
Mills Archive database entry: Waterloo Mill, Hadnall
Windmill World entry: Hadnall windmill, Shropshire
List of windmills in Shropshire
Historic England Archive Images of England record: The Round House, Hadnall
Mills Archive database entry: Waterloo Mill, Hadnall
Windmill World entry: Hadnall windmill, Shropshire
List of windmills in Shropshire