1800–1899
Tower windmill built
Historic England describes Tower Windmill as a nineteenth-century gault-brick tower windmill.
Site overview
Tower Windmill is the Historic England listed name for the former windmill on St Ives Road, Hemingford Grey. The official list entry describes it as a nineteenth-century gault-brick tower standing on a mound, with three storeys, segmental-headed arches to its doors and windows, and originally four sails. Historic England records Grade II listed status from 4 November 1982.
Capturing Cambridge repeats the listed description and identifies the site as Tower Windmill, Hemingford Grey. Windmill World records further photographic evidence, including views of the mill without sails, disused with cap, derelict with partly collapsed cap and later capless. The consulted sources do not identify a construction year, builder, working millers or final working date.
The site survives as a former tower-mill structure rather than as a complete working windmill.
Map
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History
Tower Windmill stands on the north side of St Ives Road at Hemingford Grey. The official Historic England listed name is Tower Windmill, and the same name is used by Capturing Cambridge. Windmill World identifies the site as Hemingford Grey tower mill.
Historic England describes the building as a nineteenth-century gault-brick tower windmill standing on a mound. It has three storeys, segmental-headed arches to its doors and windows, and originally had four sails. The consulted official description does not record the original cap type, internal machinery, stones, gearing, windshaft, miller names or final working date.
Photographic evidence collated by Windmill World and the Windmill Photographic Register gives a later sequence of condition: the mill was recorded without sails, then disused with its cap, derelict with the cap partly collapsed, and later as a capless tower. The building was listed at Grade II on 4 November 1982. It now survives as a listed tower-mill remnant whose principal historic fabric is the three-storey gault-brick tower on its mound.
Timeline
1930
Mill photographed without sails
The Windmill Photographic Register records a Tebbutt photograph of the mill without sails in 1930.
1937
Derelict mill with cap recorded
The Windmill Photographic Register records the mill as derelict with its cap in 1937.
1950
Partly collapsed cap recorded
The Windmill Photographic Register records the mill as derelict with a partly collapsed cap in July 1950.
1971
Capless tower recorded
The Windmill Photographic Register records a capless tower photograph from June 1971.
1982
Grade II listing
Tower Windmill on St Ives Road was listed at Grade II.
Sources and records
Historic England listed building entry for Tower Windmill, Hemingford Grey
Capturing Cambridge article on Tower Windmill, Hemingford Grey
Windmill World entry for Hemingford Grey windmill
Windmill Photographic Register entry for Hemingford Grey tower mill
Capturing Cambridge article on Tower Windmill, Hemingford Grey
Windmill World entry for Hemingford Grey windmill
Windmill Photographic Register entry for Hemingford Grey tower mill