Site overview
Jackson's Mill is a Grade II listed tower windmill north of Weetwood House on Hall Walks, Easington. It was built in 1832 by John Lamb of Hawthorn for John Henry Jackson and worked as a corn mill. The tower is built of random limestone rubble, circular in plan and tapering in elevation, with a monolithic cambered arch over the doorway and renewed windows retaining original stone lintels.
Historic mapping shows the mill still in use at the time of the first edition Ordnance Survey map in the 1860s, but out of use by the later nineteenth-century second edition. The mill was extensively restored in 1980, when the top storey was removed and a single-storey house was added to the east. The former windmill now survives as a converted residential structure.
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History
Jackson's Mill stands on Hall Walks at Easington, north of Weetwood House. It is a former tower windmill and is protected as a Grade II listed building. The mill was built in 1832 by John Lamb of Hawthorn for John Henry Jackson, whose name remains attached to the site.
The windmill worked as a corn mill. Local topographical accounts describe it as the former windmill on the western outskirts of Easington, close to the A19, and identify it as Jackson's windmill from the family associated with its operation. Historic mapping records it as still in use at the time of the first edition Ordnance Survey map in the 1860s. By the time of the second edition later in the nineteenth century, it had fallen out of use.
The listed building description records a circular, tapering tower of random limestone rubble. The doorway has a monolithic cambered arch, and renewed windows retain original stone lintels. The mill was formerly four storeys high. In 1980 it was extensively restored, the top storey was removed, and a single-storey house was added to the east. The twentieth-century house extension is not included as a feature of special interest in the listing.
Jackson's Mill was first listed at Grade II on 20 February 1967. Later photographic records from 1999, 2004 and the early twenty-first century show the restored and converted tower as part of a lived-in property. The site preserves the masonry form of a nineteenth-century County Durham corn windmill and the later adaptation of that structure for domestic use.
Timeline
Jackson's Mill built
Corn mill in operation
Mill shown in use
Grade II listed
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
Co-Curate entry for Jackson's Mill
England's North East article
Geograph photographic record
Durham Record photographic entry