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Corn mill function recorded
The tower mill is recorded as a wind-powered corn mill.
Site overview
Kingsthorpe Windmill stands on Windmill Terrace and is now known as The Windmill House. It is recorded as a tower corn mill and was listed Grade II in 1976. The listed description identifies an early nineteenth-century altered windmill, no longer used as a mill, with a three-storey battered coursed-rubble tower and a parapet hiding the roof.
Later domestic additions stand to the east and west. Archive photographs and modern property records confirm its residential identity. The accessible evidence establishes the former milling function, the surviving tower, protected status and later conversion, while detailed machinery, miller chronology and final working date are not securely identified.
Map
Map markers and directions links are provided for location reference only and do not indicate public access or permission to enter a site.
No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Kingsthorpe Windmill stands at Windmill Terrace, Kingsthorpe, on the northern side of Northampton. It is recorded as a tower corn mill and survives as The Windmill House. The listed-building description identifies it as an early nineteenth-century altered windmill, no longer in mill use.
The surviving tower is a three-storey battered structure of coursed rubble, with a parapet hiding the roof. Modern casement and sash windows have been inserted, and one-storey and one-and-a-half-storey domestic additions stand to the east and west. A Mills Archive record identifies the structure as a tower mill at Kingsthorpe, while photographic and property records confirm its present residential form.
The building was designated Grade II on 22 January 1976. The available records do not provide a detailed account of the original sails, cap, stones, ownership sequence or closure date. The site is therefore best recorded as a protected and converted former tower corn mill, now surviving within domestic use.
Timeline
1800–1833
Tower mill built
The windmill was built in the early nineteenth century as a tower mill at Kingsthorpe.
1976
Grade II listing assigned
The Windmill House was designated as a Grade II listed building.
2006
Converted mill photographed
The Windmill House was photographed as a converted former tower mill.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Kingsthorpe windmill
Historic England list entry: The Windmill House, Kingsthorpe
Mills Archive entry: Tower mill, Kingsthorpe
Historic England image record: The Windmill House
Historic England list entry: The Windmill House, Kingsthorpe
Mills Archive entry: Tower mill, Kingsthorpe
Historic England image record: The Windmill House