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Smock corn mill
Little Thurlow smock mill operated as a wind-powered corn mill.
Site overview
Little Thurlow smock mill was a wind-powered corn mill. The surviving structure is the house-converted base, with a sloping flat roof. The mill was already in domestic conversion by the early twentieth century.
The working cap, sails, and machinery no longer survive.
Map
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History
Little Thurlow smock mill stood at TL 669 451 as a wind-powered corn mill. The surviving part is the converted base, later incorporated into domestic use and capped by a sloping flat roof. The structure had already been converted by the early twentieth century, when it was recorded as a house-converted smock tower without sails.
The original working superstructure and machinery no longer survive, and the present character of the site is that of a converted former mill base.
Timeline
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Base survives
The surviving structure is the house-converted base with a sloping flat roof.
1920
Converted base in domestic use
The smock mill had been converted for domestic use by around 1920.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Little Thurlow windmill
Mills Archive mill record: Smock mill, Little Thurlow
Windmill Photographic Register entry: Little Thurlow smock mill
Suffolk Mills Group windmill gazetteer
Mills Archive mill record: Smock mill, Little Thurlow
Windmill Photographic Register entry: Little Thurlow smock mill
Suffolk Mills Group windmill gazetteer