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House conversion recorded
The tower mill is recorded as converted to a house.
Site overview
The Old Windmill at Blakesley is an early nineteenth-century brick tower corn mill at Quinbury End. It is recorded as a tower mill and later house conversion. Historic England lists the building at Grade II, describing a red brick tower in English bond, five storeys high, without cap or sails.
The surviving structure has a plank door with a segmental brick head, stone-tread steps, sash and casement windows, and segmental-arched window heads. Windmill World identifies it as Quinbury End Mill, Blakesley, a tower corn mill converted to a house. The sources establish its early nineteenth-century date, corn-milling function, surviving tower form, listed status, and later domestic conversion, but do not provide a detailed milling chronology or final working date.
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History
The Old Windmill at Blakesley stands at Quinbury End and survives as an early nineteenth-century red brick tower mill. The mill was built as a corn mill and is now recorded as house-converted. The surviving tower is five storeys high and no longer has its cap or sails. Its red brickwork is in English bond, and the listed description records a plank door with a segmental brick head approached by five stone-tread steps. The tower also retains sash and casement windows with segmental-arched heads.
The building was listed at Grade II on 14 December 1987. Windmill World identifies the site as Quinbury End Mill, Blakesley, a tower corn mill converted to a house, and links it to the Mills Archive record. The evidence presently available gives the structural survival and protection status more clearly than the working history. No detailed ownership sequence, machinery description, or final milling date has been identified in the consulted sources.
Timeline
1800–1830
Tower mill built
The red brick five-storey tower mill was built in the early nineteenth century.
1987
Listed at Grade II
The Old Windmill at Blakesley was first listed as a Grade II listed building.
Sources and records
Historic England list entry: The Old Windmill, Blakesley
Windmill World entry: Blakesley windmill
Mills Archive entry: Quinbury End Mill, Blakesley
Windmill World entry: Blakesley windmill
Mills Archive entry: Quinbury End Mill, Blakesley