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Converted tower survives
The former tower corn mill survives as a converted building near Mill House on Mill Road.
Site overview
Keyingham New Mill is a tower corn mill at Keyingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The brick tower was built in 1828 and would originally have been tarred. It stood near Mill House on Mill Road and was used for milling cereals.
The mill worked until about 1900. In 1980 the tower was converted into a house, with the interior mainly refitted. The surviving converted tower is a distinct Keyingham windmill site and should be kept separate from Keyingham Old Mill on Mill Road.
Map
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History
Keyingham New Mill stands near Mill House on Mill Road at Keyingham. The tower was built in 1828 of brick and would originally have been coated in tar. It was constructed for cereal milling and formed part of Keyingham's nineteenth-century wind-powered milling landscape.
The mill worked as a tower corn mill until about 1900. By that date wind-powered working had ended, but the brick tower survived. In 1980 the tower was converted into a house, with the interior mainly refitted. This conversion removed the working industrial use but preserved the principal external tower form.
Keyingham New Mill should be distinguished from Keyingham Old Mill, the late eighteenth-century tower on Mill Road that was raised and refitted around 1825 and continued in production until 1941. The New Mill record is therefore a separate converted tower corn mill site, with its main phases being construction in 1828, cereal milling until about 1900, and domestic conversion in 1980.
Timeline
1828
New Mill built
Keyingham New Mill was built in 1828 as a brick tower mill.
1828–1900
Cereal milling
The brick tower mill was used for milling cereals and worked until about 1900.
1980
Converted to house
The tower was converted into a house, with the interior mainly refitted.
Sources and records
Historic England Archive educational image: New Mill, Keyingham
Windmill World entry: Keyingham New Mill
Mills Archive record: New Mill, Keyingham
Keyingham Parish Council history page
Windmill World entry: Keyingham New Mill
Mills Archive record: New Mill, Keyingham
Keyingham Parish Council history page