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Tower corn mill recorded
Lound windmill was recorded as a tower mill used for corn milling.
Site overview
Lound tower mill is a surviving Suffolk tower mill now converted to domestic use. The mill is identified in modern windmill records as a tower mill at Lound, not Oulton Broad. Its function was corn milling, and the present condition is recorded as house converted.
The available evidence gives the current survival and broad function but does not establish a full construction date, ownership sequence, machinery inventory, or final working date. The site is therefore documented principally as a surviving converted windmill tower rather than through a detailed operational history. Its current value for the register lies in the survival of the former tower mill structure within later residential use.
Map
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History
Lound tower mill was a wind-powered tower corn mill in Suffolk. It survives as a house-converted former mill. The principal accessible evidence identifies the mill by location, type, function, and present condition.
It was a tower mill used for corn milling, and the surviving building has been adapted for domestic occupation. The available material does not provide a full chronology of construction, millers, sail type, internal machinery, closure, or conversion date. Even with those limits, the site is clearly distinct from the Oulton Broad tower mills and is recorded separately as Lound.
Its post-milling history is represented by the continued survival of the tower in house-converted form. The site should therefore be treated as a surviving converted tower mill at Lound, with the former industrial structure still legible through the retained tower fabric.
Timeline
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Converted to domestic use
The former tower mill survived in house-converted form.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Lound windmill
Suffolk Mills Group list: The Windmills of Suffolk
Mills Archive database reference through Windmill World
Suffolk Mills Group list: The Windmills of Suffolk
Mills Archive database reference through Windmill World