1836
Nowton Road tower mill recorded
Nowton Road Mill was recorded as a tower mill at Bury St Edmunds by 1836.
Site overview
Nowton Road Mill at Bury St Edmunds was a tower corn mill recorded in the nineteenth century. It was a six-sailed brick tower mill of five floors, driving three pairs of stones, and was associated with a dwelling house. The mill was present by 1836 and appears to have ceased by about 1900.
The available evidence gives useful structural detail but only limited operational chronology. No complete later survival history has been established from the sources found, although the site is included in county windmill lists and auction material. The mill is best documented as a nineteenth-century tower mill with substantial working equipment, rather than through a detailed account of its later treatment or present condition.
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History
Nowton Road Mill stood at Bury St Edmunds as a brick tower corn mill. It was recorded by 1836 and formed part of the town's nineteenth-century wind-powered milling landscape. Auction material describes it as a six-sailed brick tower windmill on five floors, driving three pairs of stones, together with a dwelling house.
This gives a relatively clear technical picture of the mill during its working or saleable life: it was a substantial multi-storey tower mill with six sails and three pairs of stones. The available published record does not establish the full sequence of millers or ownership, nor does it give a precise final working date. County windmill listings place its demise around 1900.
Later structural survival and reuse are not fully documented in the sources found. The site is therefore recorded principally for its nineteenth-century tower-mill form, its six-sail arrangement, and its association with corn milling at Nowton Road.
Timeline
1892
Mill offered for auction
The six-sailed brick tower mill, with five floors and three pairs of stones, was offered for auction with a dwelling house.
1900
Mill ceased by around 1900
The mill had ceased by about 1900.
Sources and records
Suffolk Mills Group list: The Windmills of Suffolk
List of windmills in Suffolk
Alan Ticehurst mill book list: Nowton Road Tower Mill auction material
List of windmills in Suffolk
Alan Ticehurst mill book list: Nowton Road Tower Mill auction material