1816
Tower mill recorded
Little Saredon Mill was recorded as a tower corn mill by 1816.
Site overview
Little Saredon, also known as Saredon or Shareshill Mill, is a surviving tower corn mill in South Staffordshire. The mill is identified at the supplied coordinates as the Saredon windmill, not as a site within the village centre of Shareshill. It was a tower mill used for corn milling and is now house converted.
Its present appearance includes a pink-painted converted tower and a replica cap, with later domestic adaptation. The mill is recorded in photographic material from the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, including views of the converted tower with its replica boat-shaped cap. The detailed working chronology, machinery, and closure date have not been established from the sources found.
The site is therefore documented mainly through its surviving form and later reuse, rather than through a full operational record.
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
Little Saredon Mill was a wind-powered tower mill associated with corn milling. It is also identified as Saredon windmill and Shareshill Mill, reflecting its location in the Saredon area near Shareshill. The mill was in existence by 1816.
Its original technical arrangement is not fully documented in the readily available material, and no complete account of its working machinery, millstones, sail type, or final working date has been established. The surviving structure, however, is clear. It is a converted tower mill that has been adapted into domestic use.
Photographic records from the twentieth century and early twenty-first century show the mill as a house-converted tower, with a replica boat-shaped cap and later domestic alterations. Its painted pink finish became a distinctive element of the later converted building. The mill therefore survives principally as an architectural remnant of rural corn milling rather than as an intact working mill.
Its post-industrial history is dominated by residential conversion and the preservation of the tower form within a private domestic property.
Timeline
1951
Converted tower photographed
The house-converted tower with a replica boat-shaped cap was photographed in the mid twentieth century.
2006
Converted mill documented
The converted Little Saredon windmill was photographed in its later domestic form.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Saredon windmill
Mills Archive database entry: Shareshill Mill, Saredon
List of windmills in Staffordshire
Geograph photograph: The windmill at Little Saredon
Mills Archive database entry: Shareshill Mill, Saredon
List of windmills in Staffordshire
Geograph photograph: The windmill at Little Saredon