West Blatchington Windmill

West Blatchington Windmill is a former windmill for milling corn, built around 1820 and now restored as a museum. It underwent restorations in 1937, 1966, and the 1970s, and opened to the public in 1976. The windmill features a weather-boarded body and cap, while the base and adjoining barn are constructed from pebble and knapped flint with brick quoins and dressings. The barn has a half-hipped slate roof. The windmill is designed as a hexagonal smock mill with a fantail and four sails, although the sails are permanently locked on the south side. The barn is attached to the south side of the mill, with the truncated remains of another barn to the east. The three lower floors of the mill have circular window openings and a round-headed blocked doorway on the north front, while the entrance is located on the south front through a segmental-headed opening in the barn.

The interior, which has not been seen, is said to contain original machinery, including an auxiliary iron bevel drive for the thresher on the loading floor, an interesting A-frame support for the spur wheel and main upright on the spout floor made from reused ship timbers, and radial beam construction supporting the dust floor visible from the bin floor. Milling operations ceased around 1900, and the fantail was removed in 1934. A fire destroyed the barns to the south-west in 1936, but the mill itself remained undamaged. It was purchased by Hove Corporation and is now managed by The Friends of West Blatchington Windmill. The mill was painted by John Constable in 1825, and a reproduction of this watercolour, along with old photographs of the mill and barns, can be viewed inside the building.