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Site overview

Fenney Spring Mill is a former tower corn mill at Shepshed. The mill is identified in specialist windmill records as a surviving tower mill later converted to residential use. The recorded site lies at the Shepshed windmill location and is included among the surviving windmills of Leicestershire.

Its known public record is strongest for the mill type, corn-milling function, survival, and later house conversion. The building preserves the visible presence of a nineteenth-century tower mill within the Shepshed landscape, although the available summary record gives limited detail on its working life, machinery, or date of closure.

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History

Fenney Spring Mill was a tower corn mill at Shepshed. It belongs to the group of Leicestershire tower mills that survived beyond their working life as standing structures rather than disappearing entirely from the landscape. The mill is recorded in the modern windmill gazetteer as a tower mill with a corn-milling function and later house conversion.

The precise sequence of construction, operation, and closure is less fully recorded in the accessible public summaries than for some other Leicestershire windmills. The known historical identity, however, is clear: this was the Shepshed tower mill known as Fenney Spring Mill. Its present importance lies in the survival of the former mill structure as converted domestic fabric. In that form it continues to mark the location of Shepshed's wind-powered corn-milling history, even though its original industrial function has ended.

Timeline

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Corn mill in use

The tower mill functioned as a wind-powered corn mill.
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Converted to residential use

The former tower corn mill was converted to a house.
1840

Tower mill built

Fenney Spring Mill is recorded as a Shepshed tower mill dating from around 1840.

Sources and records

Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive catalogue entry
Geograph windmills article
Historic England educational image listing