Gainsford End Mill, Toppesfield

Gainsford End Mill (TL 726 351 Coord|51.988|0.512|display=title|format=dms) is a grade II listed cite web| url= http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?pid=2&id=114519| publisher =English Heritage| title = GAINSFORD END WINDMILL, TOPPESFIELD, BRAINTREE, ESSEX| accessdate= 2008-08-15] Tower mill at Toppesfield, Essex, England which has been converted to a residence.

History

"Gainsford End Mill" was built in 1869 at a cost of £2000. It replaced a post mill which had stood on the site since the late eighteenth century. The mill was working until c1928 and afterwards became derelict. The windshaft was installed in Duck End Mill, Finchingfield when that mill was restored in 1958 although it was removed when a new wooden windshaft was fitted to that mill in 1986.cite book | first = Kenneth| last = Farries| year = 1988| month = | title = Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights - Volume Five - A Review by Parishes, S-Z| pages p66-69, 128-129| publisher - Charles Skilton| location = Edinburgh| id = ISBN 0 284 98821 9] It was converted to residential use in 2007.cite web| url= http://www.windmillworld.com/millid/2441.htm| publisher =Windmill World| title = Toppesfield windmill, Essex| accessdate= 2008-08-15]

Description

"Gainsford End Mill" is a five storey brick tower mill with a domed cap winded by an eight bladed Fantail. When built it had four Patent sails carried on a cast iron windshaft. The Brake Wheel drove a cast iron Wallower carried on a convert|5|in|mm diameter cast iron Upright Shaft. The convert|6|ft|4|in|m|2 diameter Great Spur Wheel drove three pairs of millstones. The tower is convert|20|ft|m|2 diameter at the base with walls convert|2|ft|mmthick The tower is convert|40|ft|m|2 high and the mill was convert|50|ft|m|2 to the top of the cap. The mill drove three pairs of millstones, two pais were convert|4|ft|4|in|m|2 diameter and the third pair were convert|4|ft|4|in|m|2 diameter.

Millers

*Lewis Steward 1874 - 1898
*Joseph Chaplin 1902

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