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Corn milling use
The tower mill was originally used as a corn mill.
Site overview
Long Clawson Mill is a former tower corn mill at Mill Farm, Long Clawson. The mill is identified as an early nineteenth-century tower mill and is protected as a Grade II listed building. Historic photographic records show the tower without sails, while museum image records show it earlier as a tower windmill with partial sails and an ogee cap, standing on a rise behind farm buildings.
The surviving five-storey windmill is now part of a private domestic property at Mill Farm. Recent property material describes the mill as a distinctive historic element within the estate, while aerial photographic records note that the listed windmill has been restored and forms part of a private dwelling. The site preserves a visible tower mill survival within the agricultural landscape of Long Clawson.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Long Clawson Mill is a surviving tower corn mill at Mill Farm, Long Clawson. The mill belongs to the group of early nineteenth-century tower mills recorded in Leicestershire and the Vale of Belvoir. It was built as a corn mill, serving the farming settlement and surrounding countryside.
The mill’s earlier working form is visible in historic image records. One museum image shows a tower windmill with partial sails and an ogee cap standing on a rise behind buildings, with hills in the distance. Later photographic records show the tower without sails. The loss of the sails and working gear marked the end of the building’s active wind-powered appearance, but the masonry tower survived.
The structure is now Grade II listed and incorporated into Mill Farm. Property records describe a five-storey windmill, originally used as a corn mill, forming a distinctive historic element of a private estate. Aerial photographic material records the windmill as recently restored and forming part of a private dwelling, with the building noted for its Lincolnshire-style ogee-shaped cap.
The present site is therefore a converted and restored tower mill rather than a public working mill. Its value lies in the survival of the five-storey tower, its association with Mill Farm, and its continued legibility as a historic corn windmill within the Long Clawson landscape.
Timeline
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Sails removed
Historic photographic records show the tower mill after the loss of its sails.
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Converted to private dwelling
The surviving five-storey windmill was incorporated into private domestic use at Mill Farm.
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Listed building designation
The former tower mill at Mill Farm is recorded as a Grade II listed windmill.
1800–1899
Tower mill built
Long Clawson Mill is recorded as an early nineteenth-century tower corn mill.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive record
Historic England listed building information
Archives Hub record for tower mill, Long Clawson
Lincolnshire Museums image record
Webb Aviation aerial photograph record
Property listing for Mill Farm, Long Clawson
Mills Archive record
Historic England listed building information
Archives Hub record for tower mill, Long Clawson
Lincolnshire Museums image record
Webb Aviation aerial photograph record
Property listing for Mill Farm, Long Clawson