Description

INGATESTONE AND FRYERNING

TL60SW MILL GREEN ROAD
723-1/2/426 (South West side)
20/12/52 Mill Green Windmill
(Formerly Listed as:
BRENTWOOD
MILLGREEN, Fryerning
Fryerning Windmill)

II*

Post mill. 1759, rebuilt in 1959. By Robert Barker. For Lord
Petre. On an earlier base and roundhouse. Roundhouse of red
brick in Flemish bond externally, English bond internally,
mostly painted, roofed with copper; body timber-framed and
wholly weatherboarded. On a mound now in the back garden of a
private house, Millhurst (not included).
Circular roundhouse of one storey; rectangular body with
slightly pointed breast, of 3 storeys. The brickwork of the
roundhouse is 0.33m thick with 4 projecting piers which house
the ends of the trestle; 2 boarded doors; conical roof. The
body has in the lower storey 2 fixed multi-pane windows and a
boarded door with a window; in the middle storey 2 fixed
, windows and 2 hinged hatches; in the top storey one fixed
window and a removable hatch. The roof is gabled with curved
sides. 2 single-shuttered sails, 2 broken; shutters and
striking gear missing. Ladder to body, and long tailpole.
INTERIOR: within the roundhouse the post is chamfered with
large scroll stops, with 'E.D. 1759' in paint; the struts of
the trestle are chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. Both
horizontal members are reduced with quarter-round mouldings,
and both are scarfed, splayed and tabled with under-squinted
butts and folding edge-wedges, strapped and bolted with iron.
In the lower storey of the body are 2 sets of wooden tentering
gear and 2 governors, meal bins and spouts; 'E.D. T.D. 1759'
is punched on the post (the millers from 1753 to 1852 were
called Dearman). In the middle storey are 2 sets of millstones,
in head-and-tail layout, with tuns, horses, hoppers and shoes.
An iron windshaft carries a clasp-arm wooden brakewheel and
tailwheel, each with wooden stone nuts and quants; the
brakewheel disintegrated in a gale in 1976, and a new one is
being constructed at the time of inspection, May 1989. Machine
drive shaft and pulleys, chain drive to sack hoist, striking
gear, wooden brake lever, chutes. In the top storey are corn
bins, sack hoist and pulleys, and the upper half of the
brakewheel.
HISTORICAL NOTE: shown in Chapman and Andre's map of 1777.
Expenditure on repairs and equipment is recorded in the Petre

archives from 1802-1903 (Essex Record Office). Structurally

the mill was rebuilt in 1959 for the then owner RF Collinson;

the machinery was carefully preserved and is mostly original.

There are no grounds for describing this as Fryerning
Windmill, as in the 1976 list; the site has always been in the
historical parish of Ingatestone, and it is documented in the
Petre archives relating to Ingatestone parish. This is the

most complete example of a post mill with head-and-tail layout

in Essex.

(Essex Record Office: D/DP A.90 A.91 A.141 A.145 A.376;

Farries KG: Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights: 1982-:

15-28; Farries KG: Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights:

1985-: 58-9).

Listing NGR: TL6396700741

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Fryerning Mill at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5506601

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