Listed Building record MDO6518 - North Windmill or Cottonfields Mill, about 830 yds south-east of St Georges Reforne, Portland

A tower mill for the processing of cereals. Built of rough coursed rubble in the 17th century, probably around 1626. Shown on a Hutchins map of 1710.

Marked as a corn mill on the OS first edition map. <1>

Recorded by NRIM. Photographed. <3>

Disused windmill. Probably C17. Rough coursed rubble, roofless. A plain cylindrical shaft to flush dressed coping, c4m diameter and c 5.5m high. At top are small openings to dressed jambs, former deep opening to west now blocked flush; to N and S plain square undressed openings to former doors. Walls c 650mm thick. Interior has various putlog holes at c 3.2 m from ground level, and various dressed slots internally. One of the only two remaing mills on the island, this one perhaps earlier than the other, which lies c.135m to the SE. Shown on the Hutchins map of 1710. <5>

Easton northern mill, of two mills, proper name Cottonfield's Mill, built 1626. SY 691 714. <6>

Disused tower of corn windmill, roofless. Probably C17. First shown on a map of 1626 by William Simplon, later on a map of 1710 and all maps thereafter. Shown with sails in a late C19 photograph. <7>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3 (Monograph). SDO150.

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, National Record of Industrial Monuments (NRIM), DO2 (Index). SDO17399.

Recorded by JK Major, 20-Apr-1974

<4> Brown, R J, 1976, Windmills of England, 18, 26 (Monograph). SWX2156.

<5> DOE (HRR), 17 May 1993, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Weymouth and Portland amendment 1993 (Scheduling record). SWX2185.

<6> Bryan, T, 1998, Windmill gazetteer for England, 4 (Monograph). SWX2184.

<7> Morris, S, 2006, Portland Then and Now, plate116a (Monograph). SDO10291.

<8> Stanier, P and Cox, P, 2007, Isle of Portland Industrial Archaeology Survey: Phase 1 Assessment Report (Unpublished document). SDO15121.

<9> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF002051 (Index). SDO14738.

NORTH WINDMILL, PORTLAND

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 497583 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 868143 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 11 2023 12:11PM