Upper Shepreth Mill, before 1927 (photo W M Palmer) (Cambridgeshire Collection)

Shepreth Mills, Fowlmere Road

History of Shepreth Mills

Listed Building

The Listed Building is the building identified on the 1901 OS map as Corn Mill.

Undershot watermill, now a house. Mid-late C18, restored mid-late C20. Timber-framed, weatherboarded, on brick plinth with tiled, mansard roof. … The site may be associated with the village brewery and beer shop which stood next to the mill in 1840.

Formerly the mill house. C17, C19. Two bays on the south side remain from the C17 mill house.

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There were historically two mills in Shepreth.

The Corn Mill shown on the OS map is probably the Lower Mill. The Upper Mill according to Vanishing Cambridge p.161 was probably used as a paper mill. A new waterwheel was installed in 1924 but a fire in January 1927 reduced the building to not much more than a wheel that was later used to generate electricity.