Feltwell Wilton Road Tower Mill Feltwell · Norfolk · England

Feltwell Wilton Road tower mill was built beside Wilton Road in 1860 by William Heading. Norfolk Mills records that it bore a datestone inscribed W.H. 1860. The mill was a five-storey tower mill with a cap floor, powered by four double shuttered sails, each with eight bays of three shutters.

The sails drove four pairs of stones, two flour mills and a smut machine. The ogee cap had a ball finial and was vertically boarded to form a petticoat; it carried an eight-bladed fantail and an iron-railed gallery. In 1872 William Heading advertised for a married man to manage a windmill at Feltwell Mills, and further advertisements for millers followed into the mid-1870s.

In 1877 Heading, having bought the Dillington Hall Estate, offered the Feltwell Mills property for sale. Sale details described an old-established freehold mercantile property consisting of a lofty brick tower windmill with six floors, bearings for four pairs of stones, first-class fixed machinery, two flour mills, sifter, smut machine, four patent sails and wind tackle, fitted with two outside stages and iron palisadings and capable of storing 1,400 coombs of corn. The same property included a post mill with roundhouse and circular sails, a dwelling house, offices, flour and offal shops, corn granaries, garden and paddock, stables, harness house, cart lodges, loose boxes, cow sheds, piggeries, carpenter's shop and sheds.

George Johnson later bought the mills, apparently to support his baking business. In 1888, as he was leaving England, he advertised the freehold mercantile estate known as The Feltwell Mills for auction at the Oak Tree Inn, Feltwell. The August 1888 particulars described the tower as 70 feet high, 22 feet in the clear at the base, with six floors, three pairs of stones, fixed machinery, four patent sails, wind tackle and all going gear, capable of taking in 1,400 coombs of grain.

Later image records describe the Feltwell windmill tower as derelict and without sails. Windmill World records the Wilton Road Mill as a corn tower mill with little of the tower remaining.