Scopwick Mill Scopwick · Lincolnshire · England

Scopwick Mill was built in 1827 on Scopwick Heath as a four-sailed tower corn mill. It began as a five-storey structure and was later raised to six storeys, probably in connection with an adjoining steam mill added in 1842. The mill worked through the nineteenth century and remained operational until 1912, after which it was dismantled.

Its associated buildings later disappeared, leaving the empty tower as the principal surviving element of the milling site. The Grade II listed tower is of red brick, circular in plan, with battered sides and a dentilated eaves cornice. Its openings include a ground-floor doorway, a window above, a loft doorway, and three upper windows, all with segmental brick heads.

The cap and sails are absent. By the early twenty-first century the tower was open to the sky, but it was subsequently incorporated into a residential conversion. The restored and adapted building now stands within a rural setting, its tower preserving the scale and form of the former windmill at Scopwick Heath.