Stock Windmill

Stock Windmill was built circa 1816 joining an existing post mill. In 1845, a second post mill was moved to a site close by. By 1862, the mill had four shuttered sails. The two post mills were demolished c.1890, about which time the millstones were moved down a floor and the drive converted from underdrift to overdrift. A steam engine was added in 1902 and the mill was working by wind until 1930 and afterwards by an internal combustion engine

The mill is a five-storey tower mill with four single Patent sails It has a boat-shaped cap winded by a six-bladed fantail. The tower is 20 ft internal diameter at ground level and 12 ft internal diameter at curb level. The walls are 22 in thick to first floor level and 18 in thick above that. The tower is 40 ft high overall and the mill is 52 ft to the top of the cap. As built, the mill had a stage at first-floor level, four common sails and was winded by hand. It originally drove two pairs of overdrift millstones. The cast-iron windshaft was probably not made for the mill originally. It carries a 9 ft diameter composite brake wheel with 81 cogs which has been converted from clasp arm…