Ullesthorpe Mill Ullesthorpe · Leicestershire · England

Ullesthorpe Mill was built in 1800 as a village corn mill. It was paid for by subscription, a local fundraising arrangement intended to provide flour for the poor of Ullesthorpe. The resulting building was a substantial seven-storey brick tower mill, round in plan, with a battered red-brick tower and slight bell-cast. Its scale and machinery made it one of the more technically significant surviving windmills in Leicestershire.

The mill was equipped with four pairs of stones for grinding corn into flour. It worked through the nineteenth century and remained in use until the 1890s. The listed fabric includes boarded doors at ground and upper levels, leaded casements in segment-headed openings, and a creosoted iron pepperpot cap with finial. Its special interest is strengthened by the survival of much internal machinery. The listing records shafting, wallower, spur wheel, grain nuts and shafts, bins, and hoists as more or less intact. This makes the mill an important survival of early nineteenth-century milling technology, especially because the operating machinery was not extensively modernised.

Ullesthorpe Mill was listed at Grade II on 2 November 1972. Later preservation has been supported by the Ullesthorpe Preservation Trust, whose work has focused on repair, restoration, public access through open days and booked visits, and interpretation of the role of windmills in the economy of nineteenth-century Leicestershire. The tower remains a major surviving windmill structure within the village landscape.