1800–1899
Roundhouse built
The surviving three-storey roundhouse was built in the mid nineteenth century around a late-eighteenth-century trestle.
Site overview
Saxmundham Post Mill was a wind-powered corn mill. The surviving roundhouse is a house-converted structure. A separate listed post-mill roundhouse on Rendham Road is a mid-nineteenth-century three-storey brick structure containing a late-eighteenth-century trestle; the working mill was dismantled in 1907.
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History
Saxmundham Post Mill was a post mill used for corn milling. The surviving roundhouse has been converted to a house. At Saxmundham, a listed post-mill roundhouse on Rendham Road preserves the lower structure of a former post mill.
That roundhouse is a mid-nineteenth-century, three-storey gault-brick building with a boarded conical roof, built around a late-eighteenth-century oak trestle. The main post was cut off above the joint with the quarter bars. The upper level retained bins and a sack-hoist bollard associated with later engine-driven machinery, including millstones that have since been removed.
The mill was dismantled in 1907, leaving the roundhouse as the principal surviving structure.
Timeline
1907
Mill dismantled
The working mill was dismantled in 1907, leaving the roundhouse as the surviving structure.
1995
Roundhouse listed
The post-mill roundhouse on Rendham Road was listed at Grade II.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Saxmundham post mill
Historic England National Heritage List entry: Post Mill Roundhouse, Rendham Road, Saxmundham
Historic England National Heritage List entry: Post Mill Roundhouse, Rendham Road, Saxmundham