Ludham Old Mill Lane Tower Mill Ludham · Norfolk · England

Ludham High tower mill was a corn mill in Ludham, replacing an earlier post mill that stood further back from the road at the end of Old Mill Lane. Norfolk Mills records that the present tower dates from 1742, with the date carved on a beam, and that it was built to replace the former post mill. The mill was a three-storey red-brick tower with three iron bands around the tower.

It had a Norfolk boat-shaped cap with a petticoat and a six-bladed fan. It was originally fitted with common sails, but in later years was converted to four double-shuttered patent sails with nine bays, turning clockwise and driving two pairs of French burr stones. The sails were struck by rack and pinion via a tailpole.

A 1761 Norwich Mercury notice advertised a brick tower windmill at Ludham with a dwelling house and outhouse. Notices in December 1796 and January 1797 described a good and substantial tower windmill with two pairs of French burr stones, two flour mills, all going gears, and an associated newly erected brick and tile dwelling house, yards, garden ground and outbuildings. The 1842 tithe award recorded the windmill and pightle as plot 248, owned and occupied by Simon Grapes.

Later directory entries show milling and millwright activity in Ludham, including the England family and Ebenezer Newton. By the 1970s the mill had been converted to residential use and had a distinctive tiled pyramid roof.