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Boundary-wall fragment survived
Part of the brick roundhouse wall survived after being incorporated into a boundary wall.
Site overview
Northumberland Heath Mill was a post corn mill near Erith. The mill is known through the survival of part of its brick roundhouse, now incorporated into a boundary wall. The almost complete two-storey roundhouse survived into at least the 1970s, before being reduced.
The surviving fragment preserves a small part of the former post mill structure.
Map
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History
Northumberland Heath Mill was a post mill used for corn milling. It stood near Erith at Northumberland Heath and had a brick roundhouse beneath the post mill body. The working chronology is limited, but the mill is associated with the nineteenth-century milling landscape of the area and was present by 1843.
The post mill itself was lost after its working life ended, and the roundhouse became the principal remaining structure. The almost complete two-storey roundhouse survived into at least the 1970s. It was later reduced, and a quadrant of the brick-built wall was incorporated into a general boundary wall.
The surviving fabric is now a partial roundhouse wall rather than a complete mill building.
Timeline
1843
Post corn mill in use
Northumberland Heath Mill was in use as a post corn mill by the mid-nineteenth century.
1891–1892
Post mill blown down
The post mill was blown down around the beginning of the 1890s.
1970–1979
Roundhouse still standing
The almost complete two-storey roundhouse survived into at least the 1970s.
Sources and records
Windmill World Erith mill entry
Mills Archive Post mill, Erith record
List of windmills in London
Mills Archive Post mill, Erith record
List of windmills in London