1720
Tower mill built
Wightwick Windmill was built by John Chamberlin in 1720.
Site overview
Wightwick Windmill, also known as The Old Windmill, is a former tower corn mill on Windmill Lane. It was built in 1720 by John Chamberlin and later converted into a house. The surviving brick conical tower has a pyramidal roof, varied fenestration and later twentieth-century additions.
A plaque records presentation by G. le M. Mander to Tettenhall Urban District Council in 1949. The building is Grade II listed.
Map
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History
Wightwick Windmill was built in 1720 as a tower corn mill. The brick tower carries an inscription recording that the mill was built by John Chamberlin in that year. It later ceased to work as a mill and was converted into a house.
The surviving structure is a conical brick tower with a pyramidal roof, varied window openings, small-paned casements, one sixteen-pane horned sash and a rear porch with a hipped roof. Later twentieth-century additions include a single-storey flat-roofed extension to the south. A plaque records presentation by G. le M. Mander to Tettenhall Urban District Council in 1949.
The former mill was listed at Grade II in 1977 and remains in residential use.
Timeline
1900–1999
Residential alterations
The former tower mill was converted to a house with later twentieth-century additions.
1949
Presented to Tettenhall Urban District Council
A plaque records presentation by G. le M. Mander to Tettenhall Urban District Council in 1949.
1977
Grade II listing
The Old Windmill was listed at Grade II.
Sources and records
Historic England National Heritage List entry
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive mill record
Geograph photographic record
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive mill record
Geograph photographic record