Site overview
The Old Corn Mill on Mill Street, Scarborough, is a late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century tower windmill built for grinding corn and grist. The tall red-brick tower stands on a stone plinth and rises through six storeys with a pronounced batter. Its cap, sails, and external gallery have been removed.
The former mill was listed at Grade II in 1987.
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History
The Old Corn Mill was built on Mill Street, Scarborough, in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. It was a tower windmill for grinding corn and grist. The surviving structure is a tall tower mill of handmade red brick in English garden wall bond, standing on a stone plinth and tapering with a pronounced batter.
Two stone steps lead to a boarded double door under a segmental brick arch, and a later higher-level door is reached by iron steps. The tower has rectangular openings decreasing in size up to the sixth storey, with a partly blocked loading door at third-floor level above the radial iron brackets of a former external gallery. The cap, sails, and gallery have been removed, and the replacement roof is not visible from the exterior.
The former windmill was listed at Grade II on 30 January 1987.
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Tower mill built
Grade II listing
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Scarborough windmill
Scarborough Windmill history page
Wikipedia article: Scarborough Windmill