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Corn mill recorded
The site is recorded as a tower corn mill.
Site overview
The Old Windmill at Scotter is a surviving early nineteenth-century brick tower mill on Gainsborough Road. It is a Grade II listed former corn mill, recorded as a tapering three-storey red-brick tower with a central planked door and simple segment-headed openings. Historic images show the tower mill formerly standing with an ogee cap and sails.
The surviving listed structure preserves the reduced tower form of the former mill within the village landscape.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
The Old Windmill on Gainsborough Road, Scotter, is an early nineteenth-century brick tower mill. The Grade II listed structure survives as a tapering three-storey red-brick tower. Its fabric includes a central planked door and single openings to each stage above, with additional side openings at ground-floor level and between the first and second floors.
The openings have slight segmental heads, giving the reduced tower a simple but legible former industrial character. Specialist mill records identify the site as a tower corn mill, and historic photographic material records the windmill before its reduction, with an ogee cap and full sails standing above the village landscape. The present structure preserves the substantial lower body of the mill after the loss of its cap, sails, and working machinery.
Timeline
1801–1830
Tower mill constructed
The red-brick tower mill was built in the early nineteenth century.
1985
Listed building designation
The Old Windmill was listed at Grade II.
Sources and records
Historic England listed building entry: Old Windmill, Scotter
Windmill World site entry: Scotter windmill
Lincolnshire Museums image record: Windmill, Scotter, Lincolnshire
Scotter Neighbourhood Plan Character Assessment
Windmill World site entry: Scotter windmill
Lincolnshire Museums image record: Windmill, Scotter, Lincolnshire
Scotter Neighbourhood Plan Character Assessment