Gayton Windmill Gayton · Norfolk · England

Gayton Windmill was built in 1824 as a seven-storey brick tower mill. Norfolk Heritage Explorer records that it replaced an earlier mill and identifies it as a post-medieval tower mill. The structure formed part of a milling site that also included a granary and a bake office, showing that the windmill was associated with a wider corn-milling and baking complex.

The mill's nineteenth-century working life is only briefly described in the consulted heritage record. It was a brick tower mill and remained an active wind-powered mill into the later nineteenth century. The sails were lost in a gale in 1895. The same Norfolk Heritage Explorer record states that the mill was used until 1904, while also stating that it was last worked by wind in 1912. Because the consulted source gives both dates, the end of working life is best treated cautiously: 1895 marks the loss of the sails, 1904 is recorded as a use date, and 1912 is recorded as the last wind-working date.

The mill did not survive complete. Norfolk Heritage Explorer records that only three storeys of the brick tower remain. The granary and bake office are also noted as part of the site record. No detailed account of later conversion, restoration, public access or formal reuse was identified in the consulted sources. The present significance of the site therefore lies in the surviving reduced tower and the documented association with Gayton's nineteenth-century corn-milling landscape.