Long Burrow Windmill Kingskerswell · Devon · England

Long Burrow Windmill stands in the countryside between Kingskerswell, North Whilborough and Moles Lane. It is formally listed as Windmill at SX 86 NE, Windmill Lane, and is also recorded by specialist mill sources as Long Burrow, North Whilborough. The tower is a former windmill, probably eighteenth century, and is protected as a Grade II listed building.

The surviving structure is built of battered red sandstone rubble. It is circular in plan and was probably three storeys high, with one room on each floor. By the time of listing the roof had gone and the tower survived up to second-storey height. The openings are infrequent and have flat arches, while some ground-floor openings were blocked. The interior was believed to have been gutted.

The mill was still in use in 1838 and was redundant by 1935. The tithe map and apportionment record Long Burrow windmill as owned and occupied by Thomas Bussel. Later descriptions give the tower height as about 6.75 metres and the internal diameter at the base as about 4.5 metres. Earthworks visible on lidar imagery between 1998 and 2017 show a circular cutting about 17 metres in diameter, interpreted as the windmill’s building platform. A linear hollow trackway extends eastwards towards Moles Lane, and an irregular mound to the west may represent spoil from the cutting of the platform.

The windmill was listed at Grade II on 17 July 1987. A Historic England archive photograph from 2003 records the building before later adaptation, while later local and visitor sources describe it as a restored former windmill tower converted for holiday accommodation. Long Burrow Windmill now preserves the form of a Devon tower mill within its rural hilltop setting, with both standing fabric and earthwork traces surviving around the converted tower.