Description

TL 51 NE AYTHORPE RODING GUNNERS GREEN

2/83, WINDMILL
23.2.67
II*

Post mill, late C18 with C19 alterations, restored 1975-82. Timber-framed
buck, weatherboarded, rotating on timber post; roundhouse of red brick with
boarded roof, The mill consists of a timber-framed buck incorporating
jowled corner posts, mounted on an oak post about which it can be turned to
face the wind. The main access steps to the buck are carried on cast iron
wheels which run on a circular track of granite. A six-bladed fantail is
mounted on a frame above the steps and is geared to the wheels to turn the
mill into the wind. The 4 sails are of the double-shuttered patent type, and
revolve anti-clockwise. They carry a half-set of wooden-framed canvas-
covered shutters which can be set and adjusted from the lower floor of the
buck. The mill drove 2 pairs of french burr millstones, 1.22 metres in diameter,
on the first floor of the buck. In addition there is one pair of french
stones 1.37 metres in diameter on a cast iron hoisting in the roundhouse to
take drive from a portable steam engine. The brake wheel and wallower are
wooden and the spurwheel and stone nuts are cast iron, all wood-cogged.
Two pairs of centrifugal governors control the millstone adjustment.
There is a bolter-type flour dresser in the rear of the millstone floor.
The date of building is not known but is probably circa 1770. Like most English
mills this one has been modernized during its working life, and incorporates
most of the improvements in windmill development over that period. It last
worked commercially in the early 1930s. By 1975 it was in need of major repair,
which was completed in 1982, when it was restored to working order. It is the
largest remaining post mill in Essex. There is a set of measured drawings
and photographs by Messrs. Hunt and Sancholls, 1967, in the NMR, and additional
information is held by Essex County Council Planning Dept. and Essex Record
Office.

Listing NGR: TL5903415159

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Aythorpe Roding Windmill at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4831740

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Old House Care and Repair