Findern Tower House Windmill Findern · Derbyshire · England

Tower House stands on Porter's Lane at Findern. The building began as a tower windmill and later developed into a domestic property, retaining the circular tapering form of the mill as the eastern part of the house. It is listed at Grade II under the name Tower House, formerly Old Tower House.

The windmill was a wind-powered corn mill. Local village accounts describe it as standing on a hill outside Findern and supplying flour to a wide area. The mill is often associated locally with a date of 1715, while the listed building description identifies the principal fabric as late eighteenth and nineteenth century, with later additions. Specialist mill sources identify it as Findern windmill and record it as a tower corn mill converted to a house.

The listed building is formed from rendered brick with a plain tile roof and a lateral brick stack. The mill tower is circular in plan, tapers upward, and rises to three storeys on the east side of the house. It has an octagonal roof and later small-pane casement windows. Domestic additions and extensions reflect the adaptation of the former working tower to residential use.

The conversion had taken place by the twentieth century. Local accounts record that the mill no longer had sails, and photographic records show the tower as a roofed former mill within the domestic property. Tower House was listed on 2 September 1952. Its present value lies in the survival of the windmill tower as a recognisable element within a converted house, preserving the former milling landmark on the edge of Findern.