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Mill survives as roofless base
The windmill survives as a three-storey red-brick base with the interior gutted and the roof gone.
Site overview
The Old Windmill on Mill Lane at Kinver is a surviving windmill base rather than a complete working mill. It is recorded as an eighteenth-century structure and is built of red brick, partly rendered. The surviving fabric comprises three storeys, with a timber wall plate, opposing doorways on the east and west sides, and square window openings.
Fragments of machinery survive above the wall plate, but the interior is gutted and the roof has gone. The structure is protected as a Grade II listed building. Its recorded form identifies it as a wind-powered corn-milling structure whose later survival is now mainly architectural and archaeological, preserving the lower body of the former mill rather than its cap, sails, or working machinery.
Map
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History
The Old Windmill at Kinver is an eighteenth-century windmill base on Mill Lane. The surviving structure is of red brick, partly rendered, and stands as a three-storey ruin. Its recorded features include a timber wall plate, doors on the east and west sides, and square window openings.
Fragments of machinery are recorded above the wall plate, although the working interior has been gutted and the roof has gone. No detailed operational chronology has been identified beyond its eighteenth-century date and its identification as a former windmill. The surviving remains therefore document the masonry base of the mill rather than a complete wind-powered installation.
The site was included on the statutory list as a Grade II building in 1987, recognising the historic interest of the surviving windmill base. A photographic record was made in 2004 as part of the Images of England project.
Timeline
1700–1799
Windmill base built
The surviving windmill base on Mill Lane was built in the eighteenth century.
1987
Grade II listing
The Old Windmill was listed at Grade II.
Sources and records
Historic England National Heritage List for England entry: Old Windmill, Kinver
Historic England Images of England photograph record: Old Windmill, Mill Lane, Kinver
Listed buildings in Kinver summary
Historic England Images of England photograph record: Old Windmill, Mill Lane, Kinver
Listed buildings in Kinver summary