Methwold Tower Mill Methwold · Norfolk · England

Methwold Brandon Road tower mill stood to the east of the old chalk pit, on the other side of Chalkpit Lane. The mill was a pale grey five-storey brick tower with two ground-floor doors, standing with an outhouse and small barns. It carried a horizontally boarded ogee cap with petticoat, gallery, and eight-bladed fan.

Its four double-shuttered patent sails drove two pairs of French burr stones, a flour mill, and a sifter. A bake office also operated on the site, showing the close connection between the mill and local baking. The site appears in map and directory evidence across the nineteenth century.

Faden's map of 1797 and Bryant's map of 1826 marked a windmill at Methwold, and later entries record millers and bakers including John Batterbee, Last Theobald, and Joseph Theobald. Employment notices in 1857 and 1860 sought journeymen and baking staff for the Methwold milling concern. The mill was photographed working around 1905.

By 1910 Methwold was described as having two derelict towers without caps. A later family account stated that a terrific gale wrecked the sails of the two Methwold mills and one at Feltwell, putting them out of action, and that engine milling was then tried only briefly because it was too expensive. The sources do not provide a precise demolition date for the Brandon Road tower.