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Base converted to house
The ruinous twelve-sided base was converted to domestic use.
Site overview
Wickham Market smock mill was a wind-powered corn mill. It was a small twelve-sided smock mill built in 1774 by Thomas Butcher, a local millwright. The mill had gone out of use by 1882 and was demolished before the end of the nineteenth century.
The ruinous base survived and was later converted to a house.
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History
Wickham Market smock mill was built in 1774 by Thomas Butcher, a local millwright. It was a small twelve-sided smock mill and worked as a wind-powered corn mill. The mill had gone out of use by 1882.
The upper mill structure was demolished before the end of the nineteenth century, leaving the base in ruinous form. The surviving twelve-sided base was later incorporated into a house conversion, preserving part of the original mill structure within a later domestic building.
Timeline
1774
Smock mill built
Wickham Market smock mill was built by Thomas Butcher.
1800–1899
Smock structure demolished
The upper smock mill structure was demolished before the end of the nineteenth century.
1882
Mill out of use
The smock mill had gone out of use by this year.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Suffolk Mills Group windmills gazetteer
Wickham Market local history material
Mills Archive catalogue references
Suffolk Mills Group windmills gazetteer
Wickham Market local history material
Mills Archive catalogue references