1801–1830
Tower mill constructed
The tarred-brick tower mill was built in the early nineteenth century on the site of an earlier post mill.
Site overview
Mill House at Toynton All Saints is a former tower corn mill on Main Road. The Grade II listed structure is an early nineteenth-century tarred-brick tapering tower, later converted and extended as a house. The mill was built on the site of an earlier post mill and is also associated in local mill sources with the name Eno's Mill.
Historic images show the tower with an ogee cap, sails, and fantail before later reduction. The sails and cap were removed in 1958, and the mill was converted to domestic use in the 1980s. The surviving three-stage tower retains segment-headed openings and a corbelled brick top, but no machinery remains.
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History
Mill House at Toynton All Saints is the surviving tower of an early nineteenth-century wind-powered corn mill. The site had earlier been occupied by a post mill, placing the surviving tower within a longer milling landscape at the village. The listed structure is a tarred-brick tapering tower of three stages, with later domestic alterations including glazed ground-floor doors and windows inserted into the upper stages.
Its openings retain segmental heads, and the top of the tower is finished with brick corbelling. Historic photographs and drawings record the mill before its conversion, showing it with an ogee cap, full sails, and a fantail. The windmill is also known in local mill sources as Eno's Mill.
The sails and cap were removed in 1958, after which the tower survived as a reduced former mill. In the 1980s it was converted into a dwelling and extended, while the later house addition was excluded from the listed description. The surviving tower preserves the visible form of the former corn mill on Main Road in Toynton All Saints.
Timeline
1932
Mill drawn with cap and sails
A 1932 drawing recorded Toynton All Saints tower mill before later reduction.
1958
Sails and cap removed
The sails and cap were removed from Eno's Mill.
1980–1989
Converted to residential use
The former tower mill was converted into a dwelling during the 1980s.
1987
Listed building designation
Mill House was listed at Grade II.
Sources and records
Historic England listed building entry: Mill House, Toynton All Saints
Windmill World site entry: Toynton All Saints windmill
Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology photograph catalogue: Toynton All Saints, Eno's Mill
Lincolnshire Museums image record: Windmill at Toynton All Saints
Mills Archive catalogue record: Toynton All Saints tower mill
Windmill World site entry: Toynton All Saints windmill
Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology photograph catalogue: Toynton All Saints, Eno's Mill
Lincolnshire Museums image record: Windmill at Toynton All Saints
Mills Archive catalogue record: Toynton All Saints tower mill