Logo Musée du Patrimoine

All French heritage classified by regions, departments and cities

Castles and Military Heritage Religious heritage Industrial heritage Heritage of cities Archaeological heritage Museums Attractions and tourist attractions The most beautiful villages The most beautiful monuments in France

Mills classified from France

Love of the rural heritage, of its history,... you will find a complete inventory of the mills classified as historical monuments.

Indispensable to processing wheat into flour, the territory is covered with mills. Depending on the energy sources, they are wind, water or tidal. In the absence of a natural energy source, an animal operated the mill. We then speak of a blood mill.

The mill was the property of the lord who received a ban right, forcing the peasants to grind their grain at the master's mill, and thus to buy that service from him.

We separated the mills into:
  • wind mulins
  • Water mulins
  • Tide moulins

Sélection de 8 mills classified as rural heritage sur 264 en France

Windmills from Peronne to Chanteloup-les-Bois
Windmill
49340 Chanteloup-les-Bois

The windmills of Peronne, built in the 2nd quarter of the 19th century in Chanteloup-les-Bois (Pays de la Loire), are two twin brick towers, one of which preserves its conical slate roof, classified as historical monuments in 1978.
Mills hanged or fortified tolls
Customs
49270 Champtoceaux

The hanging mills of Champtoceaux, built between the 13th and 14th centuries, are ancient flour mills and a fortified toll located on the Loire, Maine-et-Loire. Ranked historic monument in 1975, they bear witness to medieval engineering related to tides and river navigation.
Moulin du Boëlle in Montreuil-Bellay
Watermill
49260 Montreuil-Bellay

The mill of the Boëlle, dating back to the 15th century and rebuilt in 1896, is a former ordinary mill located in Montreuil-Bellay in Maine-et-Loire, classified historical monument since 1986.
Moulin de la Roche in La Possonnière
Windmill
49170 La Possonnière

The Moulin de la Roche, a 17th-century mill tower in La Possonnière (Maine-et-Loire), is a restored former windmill, classified as a historical monument in 1977, overlooking the Loire Valley.
Moulin de la Saulaie in Candé
Windmill
49440 Candé

The Saulaie Mill, an 18th-18th-century windmill in Candé (Pays de la Loire), is a schist building typical of the Anjou windmills, disused and classified as a historical monument in 1975.
Windmill of Val Hulin in Turquant
Windmill
49730 Turquant

The windmill of Val Hulin, built in the 18th century in Turquant (Maine-et-Loire), is a historic monument classified since 1963, emblematic of the industrial heritage of Angelvin.
Windmill of the Four Crosses in Saint-Saturnin-sur-Loire
Windmill
49320 Saint-Saturnin-sur-Loire

The windmill des Quatre Croix, built between the late 18th and early 19th centuries, is a historic monument located in Saint-Saturnin-sur-Loire, Maine-et-Loire, in the Pays de la Loire.
Moulin-cavier de Gasté à Grézillé
Windmill
49320 Gennes-Val-de-Loire

Gasté's cowmill, built at the beginning of the 19th century in Grézillé (Maine-et-Loire), is a rare example of the technical evolution of cereal mills between 1819 and 1930. Joined the Historical Monuments in 1999, it combines traditional architecture and industrial innovations.