South Mill Clavering · Essex · England

South Mill stands at Mill End, Clavering, south of the Clavering Mills group. It is the older of the two surviving Clavering tower mills and was built in 1757. The mill was a four-storey tower corn mill with a beehive cap and gallery, winded by a fantail. It carried four spring sails and drove two pairs of French Burr millstones.

The mill's recorded working history includes several named millers. Henry Salmon was associated with the mill from 1772 to 1804, followed by later nineteenth-century millers including Henry Moore, William Overill, Zachariah Livings, and Robert Spencer. In 1906 the mill was idle, but its new owner William Caton returned it to work. It continued to work by wind alone until autumn 1919, with the sails removed in the following spring. No auxiliary power was provided.

The tower survived after the end of wind working. Later photographs record the mill in derelict condition with cap and in later preserved states, and specialist mill records now describe the tower as used as a store with no machinery. South Mill was listed at Grade II on 21 February 1967 under the official name Windmill to the South of Clavering Mills. It remains part of the distinctive paired windmill group at Clavering Mill End.