Tower Mill Immediately West Of Mill House

TL 75 SE 7/10000

STANSFIELD Tower Mill immediately west of Mill House

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Tower mill, now derelict. Datestone "W E 1840", for William Everard. Probably by Bear of Sudbury. Red brick, partly missing cement render. Battered tower of 5 storeys, circular on plan; a few brick courses are missing at the top. Cap and sails removed since at least 1920's. 2 entrance doorways and 2 first floor loading doorways; boarded doors (some missing). Various window openings under segmental arches, 2 retaining 12-paned sash windows, the other windows missing. Interior: Some pitch pine main floorbeams, mostly supported on cast iron brackets'. Surviving machinery includes: lower half of wooden upright shaft, on which is mounted a wooden clasp-arm spurwheel with 2 sets of cogs, facing outwards and downwards, for main and auxiliary drives respectively; both stone nuts; some tentering gear including one pair of governors; cast iron pinion drive off spurwheel; a bolter, wire machine and smutter. The bolter is the last such machine to survive in a Suffolk windmill. This, together with some of the other machinery, was probably re-used from an earlier mill on the site.

Listing NGR: TL7851052741