Buxhall Mill Buxhall · Suffolk · England

Buxhall Mill occupies a long-established mill site at Mill Green. A post mill on the site was marked on Joseph Hodgkinson's map of 1783 and burned down on 9 July 1814. A smock mill was then built in 1815 and worked by the Clover family until 1860.

The present tower mill was constructed in 1860 by William Bear, the Sudbury millwright, at a cost of £506 6s 9d. Work began on 8 May 1860 and was completed in February 1861. The new tower used the lower three storeys of the previous smock mill as its base and incorporated the smock mill's machinery, cap, and sails.

The tower mill had patent sails, a domed cap, an eight-bladed fantail, and a stage at second-floor level. It drove four pairs of millstones, with a smaller fifth pair also present. Wind working ended in November 1929 after storm damage to the sails.

The swing-pot neck bearing was removed and sold to John Bryant of Pakenham Mill, where it was installed in 1950 by Amos Clarke. In the 1940s Buxhall Mill was stripped of its stones and refitted as an engine-driven mill. It continued in that role until about 1971.

By that date the cap had been lost, although the cap frame remained. The surviving Grade II listed structure is a large tarred red-brick tower, later made weathertight with a new roof.