| White Roding Mill | |
| Name Of Mill: | White Roding Mill |
| Operator: | Private |
| Built: | 1877 |
| Purpose: | Corn mill |
| Type: | Tower mill |
| Storeys: | Five storeys |
| Sail Number: | Four sails |
| Sail Type: | Patent sails |
| Windshaft: | Cast iron |
| Winding: | Fantail |
| Fantail Blades: | Six Blades |
| Auxpower: | Engine |
| Pairs Of Millstones: | Two pairs |
White Roding Windmill is a Grade II listed preserved tower mill at White Roding, Essex, England.
White Roding Windmill was built in 1877, replacing a post mill which had stood on the site since 1609. The post mill was destroyed on 1 January 1877 when the main post broke in a gale as the miller had too much cloth spread on the Common sails. A new tower mill was built by Whitmore's the Wickham Market, Suffolk millwrights[1] to replace the post mill. The mill worked by wind until 1926, and then by engine until 1931. The lease on the mill expired that year and was not renewed. In 1937, the mill was purchased by the actor Michael Redgrave, passing to a company in Barrow-in-Furness in 1946. During the 1950s, the mill was derelict and threatened with demolition on more than one occasion. In the 1970s, millwrights Philip Barrett-Lennard and Vincent Pargeter built a new cap for the mill.[2]
White Roding windmill is a five-storey brick tower mill which had an ogee cap winded by a six bladed Fantail. It had four Patent sails carried on a cast iron windshaft. The only remaining piece of machinery is the Brake Wheel,[2] which is 9feet diameter[3] with 115 cogs. All other machinery was removed shortly after the Second World War.[2]
The tower is 42feet high, 22feet diameter at the base and 13feet diameter at the curb. The walls are 26inches thick at the base. The mill is 50feet to the top of the cap. The mill drove two pairs of underdrift millstones.[2]
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