Corton Windmill

Corton Mill
The mill in 1910 (above) and the converted mill (below)
Origin
Mill name	Corton Mill
Mill location	TM 542 974 52°30′55″N 1°44′44″E / 52.51528°N 1.74556°E / 52.51528; 1.74556
Operator(s)	Private
Year built	1837
Information
Purpose	Corn mill
Type	Tower mill
Storeys	six storeys
Number of sails	Four Sails
Type of sails	Patent sails
Winding	Fantail
Fantail blades	Six blades
Number of pairs of millstones	Two pairs
Year lost	Early C20th

Corton Mill is a Grade II listed^[1] tower mill at Corton, Suffolk, England which has been converted to residential accommodation.

History

Corton Mill was erected in 1837. It ceased work before the First World War^[2] and was later truncated by one storey.^[1] The mill was used for many years as a store.^[2]

Description

For an explanation of the various pieces of machinery, see Mill machinery.

Corton Mill was a six storey tower mill. It had a boat shaped cap winded by a bladed fantail. The four Patent sails drove two pairs of millstones.^[2] The mill was built with room to add a further two pairs of millstones.^[1] Photographs show the fantail to have been six bladed and that the sails had ten bays of three shutters.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "TOWER MILL, MILL LANE, CORTON, WAVENEY, SUFFOLK". English Heritage. http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=282424. Retrieved 26 May 2009. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Dolman, Peter (1978). Windmills in Suffolk. Ipswich: Suffolk Mills Group. pp. p41. ISBN 0-9506447-0-6. 

External links

• Windmill World webpage on Corton Mill.