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Corn milling function recorded
Ushaw Moor Mill is recorded as a tower mill used for corn milling.
Site overview
Windmill North West of College of St Cuthbert is the listed former Ushaw Moor tower mill near Ushaw College. Built in 1817, it was constructed shortly after the college was founded to provide unadulterated flour, at the personal expense of John Gillow. The mill was a tower corn mill, built of coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings.
The surviving structure is a wide tapered tower reduced to two storeys, with flat stone lintels over boarded doors and boarded openings, beam-holes at gallery level, and first-floor openings truncated at lintel level. Specialist mill records identify the site as Ushaw Moor Mill and describe the survival as a ruined base. The windmill was listed at Grade II on 17 January 1967.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Windmill North West of College of St Cuthbert stands near Ushaw College in Esh parish and is also recorded as Ushaw Moor Mill. It was built in 1817, shortly after the foundation of the college, to provide flour for the institution. The construction was funded personally by John Gillow.
The mill was a tower corn mill. Its surviving fabric is of coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. The tower is wide and tapered, but reduced to two storeys high. Flat stone lintels survive over boarded doorways and boarded openings. Beam-holes at gallery level preserve evidence for the former working arrangement, while the first-floor openings are truncated at lintel level.
The mill is now a ruinous base rather than a complete tower with cap, sails, or machinery. Specialist mill records identify it as a corn mill and describe the survival as a ruined base. The structure was listed at Grade II on 17 January 1967 under the official name Windmill North West of College of St Cuthbert. The listing was amended in 1987. The surviving tower remains a distinctive record of a college-related wind-powered corn mill in the Ushaw Moor landscape.
Timeline
1817
Windmill constructed
The windmill was built in 1817 at the personal expense of John Gillow to provide flour for the College of St Cuthbert.
1967
Grade II listing
The windmill north west of the College of St Cuthbert was listed at Grade II.
1987
Listing amended
The listed building entry for the windmill was amended in June 1987.
2001
Listed windmill photographed
The former windmill was photographed for the Images of England project.
Sources and records
Historic England listed building entry
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
North East Mills windmill list
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
North East Mills windmill list