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Corn mill function recorded
The site is recorded as a tower mill used for corn milling.
Site overview
Tansor Windmill stands near Fotheringhay Road, about 130 metres east of Tansor Court. It is recorded as a tower corn mill and was designated Grade II in 1988. The Royal Commission inventory describes a coursed-rubble tower mill of early nineteenth-century date, certainly in existence in 1830.
Archive records show the mill with an onion cap but no sails, while modern windmill records identify the surviving structure as Tansor tower mill. The accessible evidence confirms the mill type, corn-milling function, early nineteenth-century origin, survival and listed status, but gives limited detail on machinery, working ownership, closure or later conversion. The remaining tower is therefore the primary evidenced survival.
Map
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History
Tansor Windmill stands in Tansor parish, near Fotheringhay Road and east of Tansor Court. It is recorded as a tower corn mill and survives as a listed windmill tower. The Royal Commission inventory identifies the structure on Tansor Wold as a tower mill of coursed rubble, early nineteenth century in date and certainly in existence by 1830.
Windmill records place it at the supplied coordinates and identify it as a Northamptonshire tower mill. Historic archive material records the tower with an onion cap but no sails, indicating the loss of working sail gear before the recorded view. The structure was designated Grade II on 25 January 1988 as the windmill tower approximately 130 metres east of Tansor Court.
The available sources do not provide a detailed inventory of stones, gearing or millers, nor a secure final working date. The secure history is therefore of an early nineteenth-century stone tower corn mill surviving as a protected remnant.
Timeline
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Tower without sails recorded
Archive material recorded the tower with an onion cap but without sails.
1800–1830
Tower mill built
The coursed-rubble tower mill was built in the early nineteenth century and was certainly in existence by 1830.
1988
Grade II listing assigned
The windmill tower east of Tansor Court was designated as a Grade II listed building.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Tansor windmill
Historic England list entry: Windmill Tower approximately 130 metres east of Tansor Court
Royal Commission inventory: Tansor, Northamptonshire
Mills Archive record: Tower mill, Tansor
Historic England list entry: Windmill Tower approximately 130 metres east of Tansor Court
Royal Commission inventory: Tansor, Northamptonshire
Mills Archive record: Tower mill, Tansor