Haddenham Mill

Haddenham Mill is a tower windmill built in 1803 for Daniel Cockle, which was restored to working order between 1994 and 1998. The mill features red and Gault brick walls, with some parts rendered.

The exterior of the mill is a tapering tower that stands four storeys high, with doorways at both the ground and first floor levels. Each level has a single two-light glazing bar casement window. The mill is topped with a domed cap that includes a projecting dormer and a cantilevered platform for the six-sail fantail. It has four double-shuttered sails that rotate anti-clockwise, and an external iron drive wheel that can be connected to a mobile steam engine for operation during low wind conditions. The cap structure, fantail support platform, and sails were all replaced during the restoration.

Inside, the mill has substantial joisted timber floors, including the stone floor, bin floor, and meal floor, which support various items of mill machinery and power transmission systems. A main timber upright shaft connects the mechanisms in the mill cap to the machinery below, passing through the floors.

The mill retains much of its original machinery and power transmission system, although the brake wheel and wallower were replaced in the 20th century. It has three sets of underdrift stones with their associated governor mechanisms, a friction sack hoist, a complete bolter, a vertical smutter, and a flour dresser. The principal and secondary gearing is powered by the vertical shaft, which drives various belt systems to individual machines within the mill.