White Roding Windmill
{{Short description|Windmill in White Roding, Essex, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox Windmill
|name = White Roding Mill
|image = Old Mill, White Roding - geograph.org.uk - 1206556.jpg
|image_size = 250px
|caption = The mill in 2009
|name_of_mill =White Roding Mill
|location_of_mill = {{gbmappingsmall|TL 563 131}}
|coordinates = {{Coord|51.794487|0.266881|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title|format=dms}}
|operator =Private
|built =1877
|purpose =Corn mill
|type =Tower mill
|storeys =Five storeys
|sail_number =Four sails
|sail_type =Patent sails
|windshaft =Cast iron
|winding =Fantail
|fantail_blades =Six Blades
|auxpower =Engine
|pairs_of_millstones=Two pairs
|stone_size =
|other =
}}
White Roding Windmill is a Grade II listed preserved tower mill at White Roding, Essex, England.{{NHLE| num= 1111983| desc = WINDMILL, CHURCH ROAD, WHITE ROOTHING, UTTLESFORD, ESSEX | access-date= 2008-08-17}}
History
White Roding Windmill was built in 1877, replacing a post mill which had stood on the site since 1609. The post mill was destroyed on 1 January 1877 when the main post broke in a gale as the miller had too much cloth spread on the Common sails. A new tower mill was built by Whitmore's the Wickham Market, Suffolk millwrights{{cite book | first =Brian| last = Flint| year = 1979| title = Suffolk Windmills | pages= 75| publisher = Boydell| location = Woodbridge| isbn = 0-85115-112-4}} to replace the post mill. The mill worked by wind until 1926, and then by engine until 1931. The lease on the mill expired that year and was not renewed. In 1937, the mill was purchased by the actor Michael Redgrave, passing to a company in Barrow-in-Furness in 1946. During the 1950s, the mill was derelict and threatened with demolition on more than one occasion. In the 1970s, millwrights Philip Barrett-Lennard and Vincent Pargeter built a new cap for the mill.{{cite book | first = Kenneth| last = Farries| year = 1985| title = Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights - Volume Four - A Review by Parishes, F-R| pages= 121–123| publisher = Charles Skilton| location = Edinburgh| isbn = 0-284-98647-X}}
Description
{{for|an explanation of the various pieces of machinery|Mill machinery}}
White Roding windmill is a five-storey brick tower mill which had an ogee cap winded by a six bladed Fantail. It had four Patent sails carried on a cast iron windshaft. The only remaining piece of machinery is the Brake Wheel, which is {{convert|9|ft|3|in|m|2}} diameter{{cite book | first = Kenneth| last = Farries| year = 1982| title = Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights - Volume Two – A Technical Review | pages= 99| publisher = Charles Skilton| location = London & Edinburgh| isbn = 0-284-98637-2}} with 115 cogs. All other machinery was removed shortly after the Second World War.
The tower is {{convert|42|ft|m|2}} high, {{convert|22|ft|6|in|m|2}} diameter at the base and {{convert|13|ft|6|in|m|2}} diameter at the curb. The walls are {{convert|26|in|mm}} thick at the base. The mill is {{convert|50|ft|m|2}} to the top of the cap. The mill drove two pairs of underdrift millstones.
Millers
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External links
- {{commons category-inline|White Roding Mill}}
- [http://www.windmillworld.com/millid/2378.htm Windmill World] webpage on White Roding Windmill.
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Category:Grade II listed buildings in Essex
Category:Tower mills in the United Kingdom
Category:Grinding mills in the United Kingdom
Category:Windmills completed in 1877
Category:Buildings and structures in Uttlesford