Windmill

The windmill is a late 18th-century post mill that underwent alterations in the 19th century and was restored between 1975 and 1982. It features a timber-framed buck that is weatherboarded and rotates on a timber post. The roundhouse is constructed of red brick with a boarded roof. The mill's design includes jowled corner posts and is mounted on an oak post, allowing it to turn to face the wind. Access steps to the buck are supported by cast iron wheels that run on a circular granite track.

Above the steps, there is a six-bladed fantail that is geared to the wheels, enabling the mill to turn into the wind. The mill has four sails of the double-shuttered patent type that revolve anti-clockwise and are equipped with a half-set of wooden-framed canvas-covered shutters, adjustable from the lower floor of the buck. Inside, the mill drives two pairs of French burr millstones, each 1.22 metres in diameter, located on the first floor of the buck. Additionally, there is a pair of French stones measuring 1.37 metres in diameter in the roundhouse, designed to be driven by a portable steam engine.

The brake wheel and wallower are made of wood, while the spurwheel and stone nuts are cast iron, all featuring wooden cogging. Two pairs of centrifugal governors are used to control the adjustment of the millstones. A bolter-type flour dresser is situated at the rear of the millstone floor. Although the exact date of construction is unknown, it is believed to be around 1770. Like many English mills, it has been modernized throughout its operational life, incorporating various improvements in windmill technology. The mill last operated commercially in the early 1930s and required significant repairs by 1975, which were completed in 1982, restoring it to working order. It is noted as the largest remaining post mill in Essex. Measured drawings and photographs from 1967 by Messrs. Hunt and Sancholls are available in the National Monuments Record, with additional information held by Essex County Council Planning Department and Essex Record Office.