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Smock corn mill in operation
Lower Green Mill worked as a wind-powered smock corn mill at Wimbish.
Site overview
Lower Green Mill is one of the former smock mills at Wimbish, now represented by its house-converted base. Specialist mill records identify the site as Lower Green Mill, Wimbish, a wind-powered corn mill, and distinguish it from Tye Green Mill, another Wimbish smock-mill base. Windmill World records the Lower Green site with the coordinates matching this surviving base and describes the remains as base house-converted.
The Mills Archive records the same site as Lower Green Mill, Wimbish. The upper smock, cap, sails and machinery have gone, leaving the converted base as the visible survival. The site preserves part of Wimbish’s former wind-powered milling landscape in domestic reuse.
Map
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History
Lower Green Mill stood at Wimbish and worked as a wind-powered smock corn mill. The surviving structure is the former base, converted to domestic use. Specialist mill records distinguish this site from the separate Tye Green Mill at Wimbish, another smock-mill base elsewhere in the parish.
Windmill World identifies the site as Lower Green Mill, Wimbish, and describes it as a smock corn mill represented by a house-converted base. The Mills Archive records the same windmill identity. The physical survival is therefore the lower fixed base of the former smock mill, with the timber smock body, cap, sails and machinery lost.
The site forms part of a pattern of north-west Essex smock-mill survivals where only the base remains after the working mill body was removed. In Wimbish, the existence of more than one surviving smock-mill base makes correct site identity important. Lower Green Mill is the base associated with the coordinates at Wimbish rather than the separate Tye Green Mill. Its present significance lies in the survival and reuse of the lower structure of a former wind-powered corn mill.
Timeline
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Upper smock lost
The timber smock body, cap, sails and machinery were removed, leaving the base.
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Base converted to house
The surviving smock-mill base was converted to domestic use.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
Essex windmills list
Essex County Council comparative survey: Windmills in Essex
Mills Archive site record
Essex windmills list
Essex County Council comparative survey: Windmills in Essex