1821
Windmill constructed
North End Mill was built as a three-stage red-brick tower windmill at Swineshead.
Site overview
North End Mill is a Grade II listed tower mill on Station Road, Swineshead. Built in 1821, it is a three-stage red-brick tower with a conical felt roof, corbelled eaves, plank door, and two-light windows beneath segmental arches. The mill worked until the early 1930s, when the sails blew off.
The listed description records two pairs of stones, a wooden great spur wheel, and an upright shaft. Later photographs show the mill with sails in the 1920s, capless by 1977, and preserved as a tower in the early twenty-first century.
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History
North End Mill stands on Station Road, Swineshead. It was built in 1821 as a red-brick tower windmill and worked as a corn mill. The listed tower has three stages, corbelled eaves, a conical felt roof, a plank door, and two-light windows beneath segmental arches.
Internally, the mill retains two pairs of stones, a wooden great spur wheel, and an upright shaft. Its working life continued until the early 1930s, when the sails blew off. Photographic records show the mill with most of its sails still present in the 1920s, capless by 1977, and later preserved as a tower.
The mill was listed at Grade II on 5 April 1988. The surviving tower and internal machinery preserve a meaningful part of the technical fabric of a nineteenth-century Lincolnshire tower corn mill after the end of wind-powered operation.
Timeline
1920–1929
Mill photographed with sails
Photographs record North End Mill in the 1920s with sails, apart from one missing sail.
1930–1939
Sails blown off
The mill worked until the early 1930s, when the sails blew off.
1977
Capless tower recorded
Photographs record the tower capless in 1977.
1988
Listed building designation
North End Mill was listed at Grade II.
1999
Archive photograph taken
The mill was photographed for the Images of England project.
Sources and records
Historic England listed building entry: The Mill, Swineshead
Historic England Research Records via Heritage Gateway: North End Mill
Mills Archive site record: North End Mill, Swineshead
Windmill World site entry: Swineshead windmill
Guy Blythman Lincolnshire windmill photograph addenda
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Historic England Research Records via Heritage Gateway: North End Mill
Mills Archive site record: North End Mill, Swineshead
Windmill World site entry: Swineshead windmill
Guy Blythman Lincolnshire windmill photograph addenda
List of windmills in Lincolnshire