Site overview
Mill, Pymore Nursery is the Historic England listed name for the former tower mill at Pymore Nursery in the parish of Downham. Windmill World identifies the site as Pymore Mill, Pymoor, and records it as a tower corn mill converted to residential use. The official list entry describes the building as a mid nineteenth-century tower mill of tarred gault brick, with four storeys, replacement windows and floor, and a tower that curves outwards at the top floor.
Historic England also records that the mill and outbuildings were formerly Pymore bakery. The Victoria County History notes that at Pymore there was a fine tower windmill with sails still in position. The exact working history, millers, machinery and closure date have not been identified in the consulted sources.
The building remains a Grade II listed windmill structure.
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History
Mill, Pymore Nursery stands at Pymoor, in the parish of Downham. Historic England records the official listed name as Mill, Pymore Nursery, while Windmill World identifies the site as Pymore Mill, Pymoor. The official list entry describes it as a mid nineteenth-century tower mill built of tarred gault brick.
It has four storeys, replacement windows and a replacement floor, and the tower curves outwards at the top floor. The same description records that the mill and outbuildings were formerly Pymore bakery, linking the surviving tower to a wider milling and baking group. Windmill World records the mill as a tower corn mill converted to residential use.
The Victoria County History for Downham records that at Pymore there was a fine tower windmill with sails still in position, confirming the former completeness of the windmill at an earlier stage. The statutory listing dates from 5 February 1952. The consulted sources do not provide the builder, first owner, millwright, millers, number or type of sails, windshaft, stones, gearing, date of sail loss or final working date.
The surviving evidence establishes a listed mid nineteenth-century tarred brick tower mill, later altered and converted, with historic links to Pymore bakery.
Timeline
Residential conversion recorded
Tower mill built
Grade II listing
Sources and records
Windmill World entry for Pymore windmill
Mills Archive record for Pymore Mill, Pymoor
Victoria County History entry for Downham
Cambridgeshire Community Archive Network material on The Old Mill, Pymoor Lane