Building record 5095/1/1 - Windmill House, Windmill Terrace

Early C19 tower windmill, altered and no longer used as a mill. Coursed rubble battered tower of three storeys with parapet hiding roof.

{1} Early C19 tower windmill, altered and no longer used as a mill. Coursed rubble battered tower of three storeys with parapet hiding roof. Modern casement and sash windows. Additions to east and west of whitewashed brick and roughcast with Welsh slated roofs, 1 storey and 1 storey and attic.

{3} Three storey stone-built tower mill off Boughton Green Road; stood 42ft high; ground floor wall 3ft thick tapering to 1ft 9in at top; mill now converted into part of house in Windmill Terrace. Prior to 1904 mill stood upon walled mound similar to mill at Easton-On-The-Hill; mill boasted four sails & dome cap fitted with petticoat; also fan cradle carrying eight-bladed fan; mill may have worked in cooperation with one of local watermills; number of millers listed.

{4} Early C19th tower windmill; altered for residential use; coarsed rubble battered tower of three storeys; parapet hiding roof; single storey additions to east & west of whitewashed brick & roughcast with Welsh slated roofs;

{5} Present mill shown.

{6} Kingsthorpe tower mill shown.

{7} The windmill was purchased by Thomas Wilson in 1904 and converted to domestic use shortly afterwards, with extensions on each side of the tower and a chimney stack running up one side of it.

{8} Documentatry references to windmill in 1850; SP754637.

{9} Post medieval windmill in Kingsthorpe known from 1850 map in NRO.

{10} Kingsthorpe tower mill probably replaced earlier one standing just east of present one as shown.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 9/307 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), H14 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN1000.

<3> STAINWRIGHT T.L., 1991, Windmills of Northamptonshire and the Soke of Peterborough: A History of Twentieth Century Sites, 9+96-100 (unchecked) (Book). SNN100318.

<4> Department of the Environment (DoE), 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, p.31 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN3381.

<5> Bryant A., 1827, Map of The County of Northampton, (unchecked) (Map). SNN2733.

<6> , 1887, First Edition OS Mapping, (unchecked) (Map). SNN2734.

<7> Perkins, P, Whittaker, R and Denton, A, 2022, A Guide to the Industrial Heritage of Northamptonshire, p. 64/ Site 280 (Book). SNN113793.

<8> 1850, MAP, (unchecked) (Map). SNN19805.

<9> SMR CARDS, PRN4241 (Notes). SNN2729.

<10> Eyre T. (Revised by Jefferys T.), 1779, Map of the County of Northamptonshire, (unchecked) (Map). SNN1852.

Record last edited

Jan 23 2025 12:42PM