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Derelict condition photographed
Mills Archive material records photographs of Hildersham tower mill in derelict condition.
Site overview
Hildersham Tower Mill is a former tower corn mill at Hildersham, beside the A1307. Windmill World identifies the site as Hildersham tower mill and records it as a corn mill converted to other use. A Cambridgeshire windmill conservation survey names the site as Four Winds Oakley Soils Limited, Hildersham, known as Hildersham Tower Mill, and records Grade II designation.
The same survey states that the building was then in private ownership and used for office accommodation. The list description quoted in that survey records an 1863 date in Roman numerals above the entrance. Mills Archive material also identifies photographic records of Hildersham tower mill in derelict condition.
The consulted sources do not provide a full account of its millers, sails, cap, machinery, date of closure or conversion sequence. The surviving site is best documented as a listed nineteenth-century tower mill converted after its working life.
Map
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History
Hildersham Tower Mill stands at Hildersham, close to the Cambridge Road and the A1307. Windmill World identifies the site as Hildersham tower mill and describes it as a tower corn mill converted for another use. The Cambridgeshire Watermills and Windmills at Risk survey records the site as Four Winds Oakley Soils Limited, Hildersham, known as Hildersham Tower Mill.
It gives the address as A1307, Hildersham, records Grade II designation, and states that the building was in private ownership and then used for office accommodation. The same survey notes that the list description states “1863 dated in Roman numerals above entrance”, making 1863 the clearest evidenced date for the tower mill. The Mills Archive records photographs of Hildersham tower mill in derelict condition, showing that it passed through a post-working period before later adaptation.
The accessible consulted sources do not identify the original builder, owner, millwright, working millers, sail arrangement, cap form, windshaft, stones or final working date. They also do not provide a detailed account of the conversion to office use. The evidenced history is therefore limited but coherent: a dated nineteenth-century tower corn mill, later derelict, subsequently adapted to office accommodation, and recognised as a Grade II listed windmill structure.
Timeline
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Converted to office accommodation
A Cambridgeshire windmill survey records the building as being used for office accommodation.
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Grade II listed status recorded
A Cambridgeshire windmill survey records Hildersham Tower Mill as Grade II listed.
1863
Tower mill dated
A Cambridgeshire windmill survey records that the listed description gives an 1863 date in Roman numerals above the entrance.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry for Hildersham windmill
Mills Archive record for Hildersham Tower Mill
Cambridgeshire Watermills and Windmills at Risk survey
Historic England Images of England record for Tower Mill Structure at Hildersham
Mills Archive record for Hildersham Tower Mill
Cambridgeshire Watermills and Windmills at Risk survey
Historic England Images of England record for Tower Mill Structure at Hildersham