1787
Tower mill built
Thorney Mill was built as a tower windmill on The Causeway.
Site overview
Thorney Mill is a stone and brick tower windmill dated 1787. It was built as a corn mill and originally rose to seven storeys, later surviving as a six-storey tower. The mill lost its working equipment after its milling life ended, but the tower survived and was converted.
It remains a prominent historic structure on The Causeway at Thorney.
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History
Thorney Mill was built in 1787 on The Causeway at Thorney. The tower was constructed with a stone lower section and rendered brick upper stages, with battered walls and a round plan. It originally rose to seven storeys, later surviving as a six-storey structure.
The ground-floor doorway carries a dated keyblock from 1787. The mill operated as a wind-powered corn mill during its working life. Its sails and machinery were later removed, leaving the tower as the principal surviving element.
The building was listed at Grade II in 1982 and has since survived in converted form, retaining the mass and distinctive form of the eighteenth-century tower mill.
Timeline
1787
Corn mill in use
The mill operated as a wind-powered corn mill.
1982
Listed at Grade II
The surviving tower mill was listed at Grade II.
Sources and records
Historic England National Heritage List entry
Windmill World Cambridgeshire mill entry
Mills Archive mill record
List of windmills in Cambridgeshire
Windmill World Cambridgeshire mill entry
Mills Archive mill record
List of windmills in Cambridgeshire