Stretham Windmill Stretham · Cambridgeshire · England

Stretham Windmill stands on Ely Road, at the high point of the village where it meets the A10. It was built in 1881 as a tower windmill and survives as a four-storey tarred brick structure with a metal ogee cap. The building is now a private house, but it keeps the distinctive profile of a late nineteenth-century Cambridgeshire tower mill.

The mill retained enough of its windmill character for later repair and adaptation. Its cap and fantail were renewed in 1978, and its machinery was replaced with parts from Pymore and Gamlingay mills. This reuse of machinery from other Cambridgeshire mills added a wider regional milling connection to the surviving Stretham structure.

The windmill also gained a secondary role in twentieth-century defence. It was used as an aircraft observation post from 1936, and the Royal Observer Corps later had a post nearby between 1962 and 1968. The mill was listed at Grade II in 1988. Its present form combines residential reuse, renewed windmill fabric, and visible industrial heritage at the edge of the historic village.