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Corn milling site
The tower mill worked as a wind-powered corn mill at Little Corringham.
Site overview
East Mill, also known as Little Corringham Mill, is a former tower corn mill at Corringham in Lincolnshire. The surviving tower is an early nineteenth-century red-brick structure of three storeys. It stands roofless and without floors, but the tapering tower remains visible, with a slightly corbelled top course and segmental-headed openings.
The mill is listed at Grade II under the name Corringham Windmill. It should be kept distinct from West Mill, or Winter's Mill, on the other side of Corringham.
Map
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History
East Mill was one of two named tower windmills at Corringham. It is also known as Little Corringham Mill and stood on the eastern side of the village's milling landscape. The mill was built in the early nineteenth century as a wind-powered corn mill, a typical Lincolnshire brick tower mill of the period.
The surviving structure is a short tapering red-brick tower of three storeys. The top course is slightly corbelled out, and the openings have segmental heads. The tower has lost its roof, floors, sails, cap and machinery, but the masonry shell remains. Historic England lists the building at Grade II under the name Corringham Windmill, preserving the fabric as a designated remnant of the village's milling history.
East Mill should be distinguished from West Mill, also known as Winter's Mill, at Mill House Farm. Together the two sites record Corringham's former wind-powered corn-milling provision, but the eastern mill is the Little Corringham tower, represented today by the roofless listed brick tower.
Timeline
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Mill reduced to roofless tower
The tower lost its roof, floors, cap, sails and machinery, leaving the surviving brick shell.
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Listed building designation
The surviving tower was listed at Grade II as Corringham Windmill.
1800–1830
Tower mill built
East Mill was built in the early nineteenth century as a red-brick tower corn mill.
Sources and records
Historic England listed building entry: Corringham Windmill
Windmill World entry: East Mill, Corringham
Mills Archive record: East Mill, Corringham
Lincolnshire windmill listings
Windmill World entry: East Mill, Corringham
Mills Archive record: East Mill, Corringham
Lincolnshire windmill listings