Mount Hebron Windmill Debden · Essex · England

Mount Hebron on Mill Road is the listed former Debden Windmill. It was built in 1796, replacing a nearby post mill, and is recorded as a four-storey tower corn mill. The former mill is a red brick circular tower with a pointed cap and twentieth-century casement windows inserted after conversion. A stone formerly visible behind the porch bore the date 1796, and four stones inset around the mill bear the arms of the Chiswell family of Debden Hall.

The mill was insured in 1797 by William Thurgood for £500, including the going gears and stock in trade. In working form it had a conical cap with gallery, winded by a fantail. It carried four double patent sails on a cast-iron windshaft. The brake wheel was wooden, driving a cast-iron wallower on a wooden upright shaft, and the great spur wheel drove three pairs of millstones.

Storm damage marked the mill's later working life. The fantail was blown off on 26 March 1882, and the cap and sails were blown off on a Sunday in October 1887. Repairs were completed by 15 March 1888. The mill continued working until 1911, when the sails and windshaft were removed. It was later used as a scout hut in the 1930s and was little more than a shell by the 1950s. In 1957 a new cap was fitted and the tower was converted to residential use. The building was listed at Grade II on 21 February 1967 under the name Mount Hebron.