Site overview
Fulmer Mill at Wexham is the cut-down remains of a former tower mill. Buckinghamshire Heritage Portal records it as a nineteenth-century former windmill known as Fulmer Mill, a tower mill used for processing cereals. The date of construction is not known in that record, but the sails were removed around 1870 and the surviving structure is now a shed.
The Wexham Parish Neighbourhood Plan identifies the remains of Wexham Mill in the grounds of Mill Cottage, Framewood Road, as a non-designated heritage asset. It describes a cut-down tower mill with rendered walls and crenellations, a treatment often applied to redundant windmills. Windmill World records Wexham as a truncated and converted tower mill.
The surviving structure is therefore a reduced former corn mill tower, adapted after the loss of its working function.
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History
Fulmer Mill, Wexham, is a former tower windmill surviving as a reduced structure in the grounds of Mill Cottage on Framewood Road. Buckinghamshire Heritage Portal records the site under the name Fulmer Mill, Wexham, and summarises it as a nineteenth-century former windmill now used as a shed. The same record identifies it as a tower mill used for processing cereals and notes that its date of construction is unknown.
Its sails were removed around 1870. The Wexham Parish Neighbourhood Plan records the remains of Wexham Mill in the grounds of Mill Cottage as a non-designated heritage asset. The plan describes the cut-down tower mill as having rendered walls topped with crenellations, a common picturesque treatment for redundant windmills.
It also notes that the mill was painted by Karl Salsbury Wood, the artist known as Windmill Wood, during his attempt to record windmills across the country. The Framewood Road Conservation Area appraisal also refers to Karl Wood's painting of Wexham Mill and places the site within the secluded historic landscape of Framewood Road. Windmill World records Wexham as a truncated and converted tower mill at the same location.
The consulted sources do not establish named millers, machinery details, the original cap or sail arrangement, or a precise date when milling ceased. The surviving evidence supports a record of a nineteenth-century corn tower mill whose working equipment was removed and whose tower was reduced and adapted after redundancy.
Timeline
Tower mill built
Sails removed
Non-designated heritage asset identified
Sources and records
Wexham Parish Neighbourhood Plan
Framewood Road Conservation Area appraisal
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive catalogue record