1774
Mill first recorded
Rowton Mill, also known as Sunny Bank Mill, is recorded in Shropshire windmill sources from 1774.
Site overview
Rowton Mill, also known as Sunny Bank Mill, is a former tower corn mill at Alberbury with Cardeston in Shropshire. It is recorded as a tower mill and was first noted in windmill sources in 1774. The surviving remains stand approximately 65 metres north-west of Sunnybank Farmhouse and are listed at Grade II.
Photographic records from 2006 show the old windmill without sails and associated derelict buildings. The available evidence confirms the mill's location, type, function, listed status and survival as remains, but gives little detail about its construction campaign, named millers, machinery, ownership, working chronology, or final closure. The site remains significant as a surviving fabric record of a late eighteenth-century Shropshire tower mill.
Map
Map markers and directions links are provided for location reference only and do not indicate public access or permission to enter a site.
No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Rowton Mill, also known as Sunny Bank Mill, was a wind-powered tower corn mill at Alberbury with Cardeston. County windmill listings record the mill at grid reference SJ 366 129 and give 1774 as the first recorded date. Specialist windmill records identify it as a tower mill used for corn milling.
The surviving fabric is protected as the remains of a windmill approximately 65 metres north-west of Sunnybank Farmhouse. The structure was listed at Grade II on 18 March 1986. Later photographic records show the old windmill as a roofless or sail-less remnant, standing with derelict buildings nearby. The accessible material does not provide a detailed account of the mill's construction, machinery, cap, sails, millstones, ownership, or closure. Its documented history is therefore concentrated on identification, eighteenth-century record, milling function and surviving listed remains.
Timeline
1986
Windmill remains listed
The remains of the windmill north-west of Sunnybank Farmhouse were listed at Grade II.
2006
Derelict windmill photographed
Photographs recorded the old windmill without sails and nearby derelict buildings.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry for Alberbury windmill
Mills Archive database entry for Rowton Mill, Alberbury
Historic England listing for remains of windmill north-west of Sunnybank Farmhouse
Wikipedia list of windmills in Shropshire
Geograph windmills gazetteer
Mills Archive database entry for Rowton Mill, Alberbury
Historic England listing for remains of windmill north-west of Sunnybank Farmhouse
Wikipedia list of windmills in Shropshire
Geograph windmills gazetteer