Bilsby Windmill Bilsby · Lincolnshire · England

Bilsby Windmill stands on Alford Road at Bilsby, just east of Alford. The surviving structure is a brick tower mill, built as part of the nineteenth-century milling landscape of the Lincolnshire Wolds edge and coastal plain. Local history sources record the mill as erected in 1855, while other summary accounts give 1861; the listed building description places the core of the tower in the early nineteenth century and records later nineteenth-century alteration and raising.

The mill worked as a wind-powered corn mill and remained in use until 1932. Historic photographs show the tower with an ogee cap and fantail, and with partial sails still visible. The form recorded in those images shows a working or recently worked Lincolnshire tower mill before the later loss of its principal wind gear.

The listed structure is a four-storey tapering red-brick tower, partly tarred, with planked double doors, pivot windows, and a later top stage with corbelled-out eaves. The tower is now capless, but it remains a visible and protected survival of Bilsby's wind-powered milling history. Its Grade II designation records the architectural and historic interest of the remaining tower fabric.