Trevone Mill Trevone · Cornwall · England

Trevone Mill is the former tower windmill at Trevone, within the parish of Padstow. It is formally listed as Remains of Windmill and was previously listed as Old Windmill. Specialist mill sources identify it as Trevone tower mill and record its working function as a corn mill.

The surviving structure is a circular stone rubble tower, probably dating from around the seventeenth century. It stands as a battered base rather than a complete windmill, with thick tapering walls and two surviving storeys. The ground floor has a dressed stone arched entrance, and the first floor has two opposing arched lancet windows. The wind-powered cap, sails and machinery have gone, but the tower fabric remains clearly legible as a former mill.

Local heritage accounts place the tower within the small settlement of Windmill on the southern edge of Trevone. The windmill is recorded on the 1840 tithe map and appears again on the Ordnance Survey map surveyed in 1880. These map records show the mill as an established landmark in the local landscape. The nearby settlement name preserves the association with the windmill.

The old mill later took on a practical post-milling use. The tower was capped in the twentieth century with a water tank, and later photographic accounts describe it as a derelict former tower mill previously converted to that purpose. The National Heritage List for England added the remains as a Grade II listed building on 17 June 1982, and the listing was amended on 20 May 1988. The tower now survives as a compact but significant remnant of Cornwall’s wind-powered corn-milling history.