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Saxmundham post mill identified
Saxmundham windmill was identified as a post mill.
Site overview
Saxmundham windmill is identified in county windmill lists and specialist mill catalogues as a post mill rather than a tower mill. The available evidence places the windmill at Saxmundham and connects it with archive notes and drawings, but it does not establish a surviving tower structure. A Karl Wood drawing records the mill as working at the date of the drawing, and Mills Archive material includes Saxmundham windmill notes and a scale drawing of the roundhouse.
The working chronology, construction date, machinery, ownership, and final closure date have not been established from the accessible material. The site is therefore documented as a former Saxmundham post mill, with the principal surviving record held in specialist windmill archive material.
Map
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History
Saxmundham windmill is recorded in Suffolk windmill lists as a post mill. The mill is also represented in Mills Archive material, including extended notes and a scale drawing of the roundhouse. A Karl Wood windmill sketch entry states that Saxmundham was working at the date of the drawing.
The available material does not support identification as a surviving tower mill, and no present standing tower has been established for this site. The record is therefore comparatively limited. It confirms a wind-powered corn-milling site at Saxmundham and provides archive evidence for the post mill and its roundhouse, but it does not supply a complete building date, miller sequence, machinery description, closure date, or post-closure treatment.
The site should be represented as a former post mill known from county windmill listings and specialist archive records rather than as a fully documented surviving tower mill.
Timeline
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Working mill drawn
A Karl Wood drawing identified Saxmundham mill as working at the date of the drawing.
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Roundhouse drawing preserved
A scale drawing of the Saxmundham mill roundhouse entered the specialist mill archive record.
Sources and records
Suffolk Mills Group list: The Windmills of Suffolk
Windmill World entry: Saxmundham windmill
Mills Archive catalogue material: Saxmundham windmill
Archives Hub entry: Saxmundham extended notes on individual mills
Windmill World entry: Saxmundham windmill
Mills Archive catalogue material: Saxmundham windmill
Archives Hub entry: Saxmundham extended notes on individual mills