Mill Green Windmill Ingatestone · Essex · England

Mill Green Windmill stands at Mill Green, Ingatestone, and is also recorded as Fryerning post mill. It was a post corn mill, with the timber mill body set above a roundhouse and winded by sail power. Specialist mill records identify the mill as a grain mill and record its preserved post-mill construction.

The mill survived into the twentieth century in declining condition. Photographic register material records the mill in June 1932 in fair condition and in 1938 disused with two sails. Later photographs show the structure derelict, with missing or damaged sails, stripped weatherboarding, exposed framing, and major decay before its mid twentieth-century restoration.

The restoration of 1959–61 was substantial. Records of the work include a new crown tree being lowered onto the old post, repair and assembly of the windshaft, brake wheel, and tail wheel, new roof framing, reboarding of the body, new sail construction, and rebuilding of the mill body and roundhouse roof. The mill was listed at Grade II* on 20 December 1952 under the official name Mill Green Windmill. Its preserved fabric now represents one of Essex's important conserved post mills, retaining the visible form and technical character of a traditional wind-powered corn mill.