Site overview
Buerton Old Windmill is a Grade II listed former tower windmill on Windmill Lane at Buerton. The surviving body dates from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century and is built of red brick in English garden wall bond. It is a circular four-storey tower with battered walls, cambered-headed windows to each floor, ground-floor doorways, and a loft doorway above the front entrance.
Some timber from the revolving cap remains, and two sets of mill wheels survive inside. The tower preserves the principal fabric of a rural Cheshire windmill, although its sails and full working superstructure have gone.
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History
Buerton Old Windmill stands on Windmill Lane in Buerton. It is a circular brick tower windmill, built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century and protected as a Grade II listed building. The tower is constructed in red English garden wall bond brick and has battered walls rising through four storeys.
The listed fabric preserves several features of the former working mill. There are four cambered-headed windows to each floor, cambered-headed doorways to the front and rear of the ground floor, and a loft door immediately above the front ground-floor doorway. Some timber from the revolving cap remains, and two sets of mill wheels survive inside the tower. These retained elements give the building more technical interest than a bare shell, recording both the external tower form and parts of the former operating mechanism.
The mill was listed in 1967. Later photographic records show the tower surviving as a recognised historic building at the turn of the twenty-first century. Buerton Old Windmill now stands as a reduced but substantial tower-mill survival, marking the place of wind-powered milling in the rural landscape east of Audlem and south of Nantwich.
Timeline
Grade II listing
Listed tower photographed
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Listed buildings in Buerton summary
Historic England Archive image record