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Working parts lost
The tower survived without its door, most window frames, internal floors, roof, cap, sails, and working machinery.
Site overview
The windmill tower at Mill Farm, Barnetby le Wold, is a Grade II listed surviving tower mill. It stands approximately 30 metres east of Mill Farmhouse and was built in the mid nineteenth century. The listed fabric is a three-storey tapered round tower of tarred red brick, with a segmental-arched doorway and segmental-headed openings to each floor.
The door, most window frames, floors, and roof were missing at the time of listing, leaving the structure as a roofless tower rather than a complete mill. Its surviving form is described as a prominent local landmark. The tower preserves the visible shell of a former windmill within the Mill Farm setting.
Map
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History
The windmill tower at Mill Farm, Barnetby le Wold, is a surviving mid nineteenth-century tower mill. It stands close to Mill Farmhouse and represents the masonry survival of a former wind-powered mill within the rural settlement landscape.
The listed structure is built of tarred red brick and has a tapered circular plan rising through three storeys. Its openings include a segmental-arched doorway and segmental-headed window openings to each floor, with projecting stone sills. At the time of listing, the door, most window frames, internal floors, and roof were missing, leaving the former windmill as a shell rather than a complete working structure.
The tower was listed at Grade II on 16 June 1986. Its significance rests in the survival of the nineteenth-century windmill tower fabric and its landmark presence beside Mill Farmhouse. Although the cap, sails, and working machinery have gone, the standing tower continues to mark Barnetby le Wold's former wind-powered milling landscape.
Timeline
1850–1869
Windmill tower built
The tarred red-brick tower mill was built in the mid nineteenth century.
1986
Grade II listed
The windmill tower approximately 30 metres east of Mill Farmhouse was listed at Grade II on 16 June 1986.
Sources and records
Historic England listed building entry
Images of England photographic record
Windmill World Lincolnshire windmills list
Images of England photographic record
Windmill World Lincolnshire windmills list