1729
Bolting house built
A bolting house was built at Pashley Down around 1729.
Site overview
The Pashley Down site at Eastbourne contains the remains of a bolting house built around 1729 and later incorporated into a horizontal windmill in 1752. The horizontal mill was designed by Thomas Mortimer of Eastbourne. Excavations in 1966 and 1967 exposed the remains, and the site was left open for public view.
Map
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History
The Pashley Down windmill site originated as a rectangular bolting house built around 1729. In 1752 the building was incorporated into a horizontal windmill designed by Thomas Mortimer of Eastbourne. The structure was used for corn milling and formed part of Eastbourne's unusual group of eighteenth-century horizontal windmills.
Excavations in 1966 and 1967 exposed the remains of the bolting house and horizontal mill. The surviving remains comprise low foundations and associated structural traces rather than a standing tower or traditional post-mill body.
Timeline
1752
Horizontal windmill formed
The bolting house was incorporated into a horizontal windmill designed by Thomas Mortimer in 1752.
1966–1967
Site excavated
The bolting house and horizontal windmill remains were excavated in 1966 and 1967.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Eastbourne windmill
Mills Archive catalogue entry: Pashley Down Bolting House, Eastbourne
Historic England Research Records: Pashley Down
Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society Newsletter No. 1
Mills Archive catalogue entry: Pashley Down Bolting House, Eastbourne
Historic England Research Records: Pashley Down
Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society Newsletter No. 1