1813
Smock mill built
Hungry Corner Mill was built around 1813 after the earlier post mill had been demolished.
Site overview
Hungry Corner Mill was a smock corn mill at Chiddingfold. It was built around 1813, after an earlier post mill on the site had been demolished. The smock mill lost its cap around 1874 and was demolished around 1876.
The base survived and was later used as a store. The surviving windmill structure is listed Grade II.
Map
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History
Hungry Corner Mill stood at Chiddingfold. An earlier post mill existed on the site from the seventeenth century and was demolished around 1813. The smock mill was then built around 1813 and worked as a corn mill.
It was marked on nineteenth-century maps and remained standing until the later nineteenth century. Its cap was blown off around 1874, and the mill was demolished around 1876. The base survived after the loss of the working mill and was later used as a store.
The surviving structure is listed Grade II and remains the principal visible remnant of the Chiddingfold windmill site.
Timeline
1874
Cap blown off
The cap was blown off around 1874.
1876
Mill demolished
The smock mill was demolished around 1876.
1983
Listed Grade II
The surviving windmill structure was listed Grade II on 17 June 1983.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Hungry Corner Mill, Chiddingfold
Historic England National Heritage List entry: Windmill 20 Yards Northwest of Mill Farmhouse
Mills Archive catalogue entry: Hungry Corner Mill, Chiddingfold
List of windmills in Surrey
Historic England National Heritage List entry: Windmill 20 Yards Northwest of Mill Farmhouse
Mills Archive catalogue entry: Hungry Corner Mill, Chiddingfold
List of windmills in Surrey