The tower mill was erected on Willoughby Road on the east side of John Rennie's Maud Foster Drain[REF] for Thomas and Isaac Reckitt by the Hull millwrights Norman and Smithson in 1819.
The Ostler family bought the mill in 1914 and ran the business, known as Ostler's Mill, until 1948 when it closed and the mill fell into disrepair.