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Corn milling function recorded
Giffins End Mill is recorded as a post mill used for grain or corn milling.
Site overview
Giffins End Mill was a post corn mill at Braintree. Specialist mill records identify it as a post mill with a roundhouse and record its function as grain or corn milling. The surviving fabric is highly fragmentary: a quarter fragment of the roundhouse wall, with two piers, remains embedded in a garden wall.
The post mill body, sails, trestle, and working machinery have gone, leaving a structural remnant of the roundhouse rather than a complete windmill. The site preserves a small but visible trace of Braintree's wind-powered milling landscape.
Map
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History
Giffins End Mill was a former post corn mill at Braintree. The mill is recorded in specialist sources as a post mill with a roundhouse, used for grain milling.
The surviving remains are slight but specific. A quarter fragment of the roundhouse wall survives, together with two piers, embedded in a garden wall. This remnant preserves part of the base structure of the former post mill after the loss of the timber body, sails, windshaft, trestle, and machinery.
Giffins End Mill is therefore a fragmentary structural survival rather than a standing or restored windmill. Its significance lies in preserving part of the post-mill roundhouse within the townscape at Braintree, marking the position of a former wind-powered corn mill.
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Roundhouse wall fragment survives
A quarter fragment of the roundhouse wall with two piers remains embedded in a garden wall.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
Windmills of Essex comparative survey
Mills Archive site record
Windmills of Essex comparative survey