Syleham Windmill

The mill was originally one of a pair on Wingfield Green. Both mills came into the ownership of Robert Sparkes in 1820. He believed that the mills were too close to each other and so moved one of them 2 mi to Syleham in 1823. The mill survived a lightning strike in 1936. Repairs were carried out by millwright Jesse Wightman. Two new sails being made from the remains of the four previously on the mill, and the side girts were strengthened. and an oil engine powered a pair of millstones in the roundhouse until 1967. The mill was sold in that year to Ivor Wingfield, grandson of Arthur Bryant. In 1974, some repair work was done to the roundhouse funded by a grant of £400 from Suffolk County…

Syleham Mill was a post mill on a two-storey roundhouse. The roundhouse is built of clunch. The four Spring sails were carried on a cast iron windshaft and powered two pairs of millstones arranged head and tail. The Head wheel and tail wheel were both of wooden clasp arm construction. The mill was winded by a fantail arranged in the Suffolk style. An oil engine latterly powered an additional pair of millstones in the roundhouse.