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Corn mill machinery
The mill worked with four patent sails, a fantail, and two pairs of millstones.
Site overview
Walton Smock Mill stands on High Street, Felixstowe. It is a disused early nineteenth-century smock mill with a brick base and timber-framed, weatherboarded upper section. The octagonal structure has two brick storeys and two timber-framed storeys.
Its cap has been replaced by a hexagonal pointed corrugated-iron roof, and the internal machinery has been removed. The building is listed Grade II.
Map
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History
Walton Smock Mill at Felixstowe was built in the early nineteenth century as a wind-powered corn mill. It is an octagonal smock mill with a two-storey brick base, partly rendered, and a two-storey timber-framed and weatherboarded upper section. The original working arrangement included four patent sails, a fantail, and two pairs of millstones.
The mill was later dismantled internally, leaving the smock tower standing without its machinery. The cap was replaced by a hexagonal pointed corrugated-iron roof. The building was listed Grade II on 10 February 1986 and has since survived as a conserved former mill structure.
Timeline
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Machinery removed
The internal machinery was removed and the cap was replaced by a pointed corrugated-iron roof.
1804
Smock mill built
Walton Smock Mill was built in the early nineteenth century.
1986
Listed Grade II
The smock mill was listed Grade II on 10 February 1986.
Sources and records
Historic England National Heritage List entry: Smock Mill, High Street, Felixstowe
Windmill World entry: Felixstowe windmill
Mills Archive catalogue entry: Smock mill, Walton, Felixstowe
List of windmills in Suffolk
Windmill World entry: Felixstowe windmill
Mills Archive catalogue entry: Smock mill, Walton, Felixstowe
List of windmills in Suffolk