Site overview
Long's Mill is a surviving former tower corn mill on High Street East in Scunthorpe, close to the steelworks. Built in 1858 by Uriah Long on the site of an earlier post mill, it was a four-storey tower mill with four double-sided sails. The listed windmill tower has a coursed ironstone base, tarred brick tower, wooden cap, and fittings.
It was restored in 1982 and later adapted for office and restaurant use, retaining its recognisable windmill form within the urban edge of Scunthorpe.
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History
Long's Mill was built in 1858 by Uriah Long on the site of an earlier post mill at the eastern side of Scunthorpe. Long was associated with the mill for about sixty years. The new mill was a four-storey tower corn mill with four double-sided sails, standing close to the later industrial landscape of the Scunthorpe steelworks.
The tower was constructed with a coursed ironstone rubble base, a tarred brick upper tower, wooden cap, and fittings. Its windows were set in original segmental-arched openings. The building survived the loss of its working role and was restored in 1982, when a cogged brick cornice and wooden onion-shaped ogee cap with ball finial and cross-tree formed part of its renewed appearance.
The former windmill tower was later converted to office and restaurant use. The listed structure remains one of Scunthorpe's most distinctive surviving pre-industrial buildings, marking the town's earlier agricultural and milling landscape within a setting now strongly shaped by later industry.
Timeline
Listed building designation
Tower mill constructed
Uriah Long worked the mill
Mill restored
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
North Lincolnshire local history record
Historic England listed building record
Geograph photographic record