Site overview

Harrison's Mill, also known as Roman Bank Mill, is a former tower windmill at Long Sutton. It stands on Roman Bank and was built for Charles Treffitt in 1843. The tower is a six-storey red-brick structure and is Grade II listed.

Specialist mill records identify it as a tower corn mill, and historic photographs record it as a six-sailed mill. By the early twenty-first century it had been converted to residential use. Harrison's Mill is one of the two principal surviving Long Sutton tower mills, distinct from Brunswick Mill on Wisbech Road.

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History

Harrison's Mill stands on Roman Bank at Long Sutton. It was built for Charles Treffitt in 1843 as a red-brick tower windmill. The tower is six storeys high, with door and window openings arranged around the elevations. The mill is recorded as a tower corn mill and historic photographs show it as a six-sailed Lincolnshire mill.

The mill's Roman Bank location places it within the South Holland fenland landscape, where tower mills processed grain for agricultural communities. Its later history followed a common pattern of loss of working function but retention of the tower. The mill survived as a substantial brick structure and was later converted for domestic use. A 2011 photograph described the old mill tower on Roman Bank, while other views identified the building as Harrison's Mill.

Harrison's Mill is protected as a Grade II listed building. Together with Brunswick Mill, it preserves the unusually strong visible survival of Long Sutton's nineteenth-century tower-mill landscape.

Timeline

Six-sailed corn mill in use

The Roman Bank tower mill worked as a six-sailed corn mill.

Converted to residential use

The former tower mill was converted to residential use.

Grade II listed building designation

Harrison's Mill is protected as a Grade II listed red-brick tower windmill.
1843

Tower mill built

Harrison's Mill was built for Charles Treffitt in 1843.
2011

Old mill tower photographed

The old mill tower on Roman Bank was photographed on 7 December 2011.

Sources and records

Historic England listed building entry
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive catalogue entry
Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology Long Sutton records
Geograph photograph record
Wikimedia Commons Geograph image record
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman