Weston Windmill At The Mill

Weston Windmill is a tower windmill located on Weston Hitchin Road, built in 1860 for Richard Christey, the miller. It operated using wind power until around 1922 and currently lacks its cap and machinery. The structure is made of red brick in English bond, featuring timber floors and cast iron window frames. The tall circular brick tower tapers upwards from a maximum diameter of approximately 7 meters at the base. At the top, there are three courses of brick corbels that once supported the now-missing cap.

The windmill has two-ring round-arched openings at five levels, with small-paned cast iron windows set vertically into the sloping brick face, recessed further at the sills. There is a central pivoted opening pane. The openings are positioned at the cardinal points, with doorways on the north and south sides at the ground floor, and a doorway with a ladder on the east side at the first floor. The north side has only one window, located at the fourth floor. The plank doors have a heavy wooden frame, chamfered on the lintel and jambs, with bar-stops, and the walls at the ground floor are 27½ inches thick. The massive floor structure on the third floor was designed to support the millstones. The windmill has a flat roof at the top. An old photograph shows that it originally had four sails, slats on the sails, a fantail, and a pointed ogee cap with a ball terminal.