Windmill

This is a tower windmill built in 1819, with later modernisation indicated by a windshaft dated 'J.AICKMAN.LYNN. 1832'. Restoration to working order began in 1980. The windmill features a tarred brick tower with a ground floor and three upper floors, small segmental-headed casement windows, and a boarded half-door. It has a conical cap that is vertically boarded, but at the time of the survey, it did not have sails or a fantail. The machinery inside is intact, including a wooden clasp-arm brakewheel with iron teeth, an iron windshaft, an iron wallower, a wooden upright shaft in two sections, a wooden clasp-arm spurwheel with iron teeth, and iron stone nuts with wooden cogs. There are two pairs of underdriven millstones located on the first floor and a third pair on the ground floor, which is driven by an engine via an external pulleywheel. Additionally, there is a wooden crownwheel that drives a sack hoist. The diary of Thomas King, a local carpenter, notes that construction of the mill began in 1819 and that it was 'set to work on Christmas Day Dec. 25, 1819'.