[1] The tower mill was erected on Willoughby Road on the east side of John Rennie's Maud Foster Drain[2] for Thomas and Isaac Reckitt by the Hull millwrights Norman and Smithson in 1819.

The Reckitt brothers were millers, corn factors and bakers until poor harvests in the years up to 1833 led to the mill being sold.

[3] In 1987 the mill was bought by James Waterfield and his family who restored her in 1988 to fully working order being now the most productive windmill in all England.

The seven-stage mill tower is constructed in gault brick and has Yorkshire sash windows with segmental heads on each level.

It is topped with an ogee cap made of white painted timber and canvas and has five sails and a fan tail.

[1] The three-storey granary is built in red brick and has a hipped pantile roof with dog-toothed eaves.

An unusual feature is the weather beam (or 'rode balk') which is made of cast iron, probably replacing the original wooden one.