Windmill

This is a substantial tower windmill, built around 1822 by Robert King, with later additions and alterations in 1895 and 1928. It is constructed of brown brick with a corrugated iron shallow pointed roof, featuring a finial and dentillated brick eaves. The windmill stands eight storeys plus a basement, reaching a total height of 80 feet. The diameter is 18 feet 9 inches at ground level, reducing to 12 feet at the curb.

The ground floor features three round basement openings, one each to the south-east, south-west, and north-west. A large drive wheel, part of steam engine gearing inserted after 1895 due to storm damage to the sails, is located on the north side. A staircase on the west side leads to a doorway with a cambered head and panelled door. Above the doorway is a row of seven glazing bar casements. Further glazing bar casements are arranged on the north and south sides. An attached two-storey granary obscures the lower three floors of the windmill; the ground floor is of early 19th century design and rendered, while the upper floors are of red brick dated 1895. This granary also features pivotal glazing bar casements. Five glazing bar casements are located above the granary roof. All windows have cambered heads.

The windmill retains almost all of its original internal machinery. The basement houses the engine drive gearing from around 1895, which originally powered a subsidiary shaft connected to the great spur wheel. The first floor contains an electrically powered Turner Inkoos Mill, a Kibbler, and a Hunt's roller mill. The second floor is used for storage, while the third was originally the spent floor and now lacks the governor. Two pairs of French stones remain on the fourth floor, one bearing the inscription 'WJ & T Child.Maker. Hull. 1853', and a pair of grey stones lean against the wall. The spur wheel features iron nuts, morticed wooden cogs, an iron hub, wooden radiating spokes, and a small iron nut engaging the subsidiary drive shaft. The fifth and sixth floors are lined with storage bins, while the upper two floors are empty. The wallower incorporates a chamfered spine beam with run-out stops, an upper iron section, and an exceptional wooden clasp arm bevel wheel with wooden cogs. An endless chain sack hoist was formerly driven from a friction rim on the underside of the wheel. A hexagonal wooden curb frame is built into the brickwork, including an iron track, inward-facing tooth ring, and centring wheels. The wind shaft is no longer present, but its tail bearing housing remains. This windmill is the tallest in the country when considering height to the curb, although it is not the tallest complete windmill (including the cap) which is at Sutton in Norfolk. Buildings at the original entrance to the road have since been demolished.