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Corn milling use
Rougham Post Mill was a post mill used for corn milling.
Site overview
Rougham Post Mill was a wind-powered post mill used for corn milling. The surviving remains consist of the trestle, with earlier material also identifying ruined roundhouse walls. The mill had become derelict by the early twentieth century, and later survival is represented by structural remains rather than a complete mill body.
Map
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History
Rougham Post Mill was a post mill used for corn milling at Rougham. By the early twentieth century the mill had become derelict, with photographs recording the buck without sails and in a deteriorating state. Later remains included the surviving trestle and ruined roundhouse walls.
The present surviving character is therefore fragmentary, consisting of structural remains from the former post mill rather than an intact working mill.
Timeline
1922–1938
Derelict mill
The mill was derelict during the early twentieth century, with the buck later roofless and collapsing.
1972
Trestle and roundhouse remains
The surviving remains included the trestle and ruined roundhouse walls.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Rougham post mill
Guy Blythman Windmill Photographic Register: Rougham Green post mill
Guy Blythman Windmill Photographic Register: Rougham Green post mill