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Tower converted to accommodation
The former tower windmill was converted for holiday accommodation near Mundesley.
Site overview
Stow Mill stands at Paston near Mundesley and is now used as converted windmill holiday accommodation. The surviving tower is promoted as Stow Windmill or Stow Mill, retaining the distinctive form of a former Norfolk tower mill while serving a later residential and visitor function. Public accommodation material identifies the building as a converted windmill for short stays near the Norfolk coast.
The researched record confirms its present converted use and location but provides limited detail on its original builder, exact construction date, milling machinery or closure sequence. The site is therefore best recorded as a surviving converted tower mill rather than an operating windmill. Its current significance lies in the reuse of the mill tower as accommodation and in the continued visibility of a former windmill close to Mundesley.
Map
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History
Stow Mill stands at Paston, close to Mundesley on the north Norfolk coast. The surviving building is a former tower windmill that has been converted for holiday accommodation. It is presented publicly as Stow Windmill or Stow Mill, with the tower forming the central historic feature of the converted property.
The present use is clearly evidenced as visitor accommodation, sleeping two, and the mill is described as a converted windmill rather than a working mill. The available online record gives much more detail on its current accommodation role than on its original milling history. No secure construction date, named millwright, ownership sequence, machinery inventory or final working date has been identified in the researched sources for this entry.
The account is therefore confined to the positively evidenced facts: the mill tower survives at Paston near Mundesley, it has been converted, and it is now used for holiday accommodation while retaining the landmark form of a Norfolk tower windmill.
Timeline
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Visitor accommodation use recorded
The converted windmill was marketed as accommodation for short stays near the Norfolk coast.
Sources and records
Stow Mill holiday accommodation website
Stow Mill accommodation information
Coolstays listing for Stow Mill
Norfolk coastal windmill accommodation references
Stow Mill accommodation information
Coolstays listing for Stow Mill
Norfolk coastal windmill accommodation references