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Post corn mill
Duncton Gate Mill worked as a post corn mill at Clayton.
Site overview
Duncton Gate Mill was a post corn mill at Clayton. It was part of the Clayton windmill group with Jack and Jill. The post mill body has gone, but the roundhouse remains survive.
The site forms part of the Grade II* listed Clayton Windmills and Millhouse group.
Map
Map markers and directions links are provided for location reference only and do not indicate public access or permission to enter a site.
No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Duncton Gate Mill was a post corn mill at Clayton. It stood near Jack and Jill and formed part of the well-known group of windmills on the South Downs. The mill body has not survived, but the roundhouse remains are still identifiable.
Early twentieth-century imagery shows the mill body still standing, while later material shows the surviving roundhouse remains. The site is included within the Grade II* listed Clayton Windmills and Millhouse group.
Timeline
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Roundhouse remains survive
The post mill body has gone, but the roundhouse remains survive.
1957
Listed as part of Clayton windmills group
The Clayton Windmills and Millhouse group was listed Grade II* on 28 October 1957.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Duncton Gate Mill, Clayton
Historic England National Heritage List entry: Clayton Windmills and the Millhouse Attached
Mills Archive catalogue entry: Duncton Gate Mill, Clayton
Sussex Mills Group windmill list
Historic England National Heritage List entry: Clayton Windmills and the Millhouse Attached
Mills Archive catalogue entry: Duncton Gate Mill, Clayton
Sussex Mills Group windmill list