Frost's Mill Halstead · Essex · England

Frost's Mill stood at North Mills, Halstead. It was a smock corn mill, and the surviving structure is the brick base of the former windmill. The National Heritage List for England records the building as Mill and Mill Building, North Mills, Halstead, and describes the brick base of the original smock mill as dating from 1790.

The base is octagonal and built in Flemish-bond brickwork. It formed the fixed lower structure on which the timber smock mill once stood. The working mill body, cap, sails and machinery have gone, but the base remains incorporated within the North Mills site. Specialist mill records identify the site as North Mill, Halstead, a wind-powered corn mill represented by base remains, and the Mills Archive records the site as Frost's Mill.

Later history is centred on survival and adaptation. Photographic records show the former smock-mill base as house-converted in 1975, and Essex industrial-heritage writing identifies the base of a smock mill at Halstead among the surviving windmill remains of the Colne and Stour area. The Grade II listing gives formal protection to the surviving structure. Frost's Mill now preserves the lower form of a late eighteenth-century Essex smock mill within a wider historic milling complex.