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Grade II tower survives
The brick-built three-storey windmill tower on Butter Hill survives as a Grade II listed structure.
Site overview
Butterhill Mill is a surviving tower mill at Coppenhall, Staffordshire. The windmill tower probably dates to the eighteenth century and is described as a brick-built, circular, three-storeyed structure tapering towards the top. It is Grade II listed.
Specialist windmill photographic records identify Butter Hill, Coppenhall, as a tower mill with remains of cap framing in twentieth-century photographs. The available sources provide structural description and survival evidence, but they do not give a complete operational history. No secure miller sequence, machinery inventory, final working date, or detailed conversion history has been identified.
The present record supports a description of a standing former tower mill, preserved as a listed historic structure.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Butterhill Mill at Coppenhall is recorded as a former windmill tower on Butter Hill. The structure is described as brick built, circular in plan, three storeyed, and tapering towards the top. It probably dates to the eighteenth century and is Grade II listed.
Photographic register material records the tower with remains of cap framing in the mid and late twentieth century, including National Monuments Record and later photographic coverage. The county windmill list identifies the Coppenhall mill as Butterhill Mill, a tower mill, and gives a circa 1800 reference. The consulted material does not provide a detailed account of its working life, ownership, machinery, or closure.
Its surviving importance is therefore evidenced mainly through the standing brick tower, listed status, and photographic documentation of the former mill structure.
Timeline
1800
Tower mill recorded
Butterhill Mill at Coppenhall is recorded as a tower mill with a circa 1800 reference.
2007
Surviving tower photographed
The surviving Butterhill Windmill tower was photographed at Coppenhall in March 2007.
Sources and records
Historic England Research Records via Heritage Gateway: Windmill tower on Butter Hill
Geograph photograph record: Butterhill Windmill
Windmill photographic register
List of windmills in Staffordshire
Geograph photograph record: Butterhill Windmill
Windmill photographic register
List of windmills in Staffordshire