Hutton Mill Hutton · Somerset · England

Hutton windmill occupies a hilltop position with views over Weston Bay and the Mendip Range. A windmill was recorded in Hutton parish in 1309, but the standing tower mill belongs to a later phase and was probably built early in the nineteenth century. In 1817 William Hookway was recorded as occupier.

He also built the windmill cottage and enclosed part of the hill as a garden, linking the mill site with domestic occupation. By 1845 the property was being advertised by Samuel Sargent as a milling and baking business, showing that the mill was then still part of an active rural commercial operation. The mill stopped work around 1864.

In the 1920s the tower was very derelict. During the 1940s it was largely rebuilt to a height of about 18 feet. Its form is described as parallel-sided with an internal diameter of about 12 feet 6 inches.

The surviving tower is now in a private garden and has been adapted as an observation tower, with a large pent roof and windows below. No surviving machinery or sails are recorded in the consulted material, and the site is now legible chiefly through the rebuilt masonry tower and its post-milling domestic setting.