1750
Tower windmill built
Local heritage records associate the former High Leven windmill with a date around 1750.
Site overview
High Leven Mill, also known as the Old Mill at Ingleby Barwick, is a former tower corn mill at High Leven. The mill is associated with an eighteenth-century origin in local heritage records and with an 1843 corn-mill record in regional mill lists. Its upper storeys were later demolished, leaving the lower part of the tower to be converted into a dwelling in 1968.
The converted mill was subsequently enlarged into bed-and-breakfast accommodation in 2004. The surviving structure is therefore a reduced and adapted tower mill rather than a complete working windmill, but it remains a visible remnant of High Leven’s wind-powered milling history.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
High Leven Mill is the former tower corn mill at High Leven, near Ingleby Barwick. Local heritage records describe the windmill as a former mill built around 1750, while regional mill lists record High Leven Mill as a corn mill in 1843. It stood near the historic settlement of High Leven, close to the old route of Barwick Lane.
The working windmill was later reduced. The upper storeys were demolished, and the lower half of the tower was converted into a dwelling in 1968. This post-working conversion preserved part of the tower but removed the full height and complete working form of the mill. Later photographs and mill records show the building as an adapted former tower mill rather than as a restored windmill with cap and sails.
The building was enlarged into bed-and-breakfast accommodation in 2004 and continues to be presented as the Old Mill. Its present survival is a residential and visitor-accommodation conversion, retaining the lower tower of the former corn mill. High Leven Mill now marks the site of one of Ingleby Barwick’s wind-powered corn mills within a modernised roadside setting near High Leven.
Timeline
1843
Corn mill recorded
High Leven Mill is recorded as a corn mill at Ingleby Barwick.
1968
Converted to dwelling
The upper storeys were demolished and the lower part of the tower was converted into a dwelling.
2004
Adapted as bed and breakfast
The converted former windmill was enlarged into bed-and-breakfast accommodation.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
Co-Curate page: Old Mill, Ingleby Barwick
Old Mill Rooms website
North East Mills list
Windmills in Cleveland list
Mills Archive site record
Co-Curate page: Old Mill, Ingleby Barwick
Old Mill Rooms website
North East Mills list
Windmills in Cleveland list