Ingleborough Tower Windmill is located one mile north of the village of West Walton

West Walton

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 in the English

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 county

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 of Norfolk

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. The windmill is situated in the yard of Hill House Farm along with a house and assorted farm buildings. The mill is now in a state of disuse. The mill tower was made a Grade II listed building in 1951.

Description

This tall mill was built in the year 1824. The tower mill stood over eight storeys high and is constructed from brick. At the fourth floor level there is a gallery. There are windows on each floor top to bottom with three windows on the south elevation. At its crown there is a Sawtooth cornice in brickwork, below curb track. The tower was topped with a white ogee cap which has been removed. A set of railings was installed around the top in 1980. The sails, of which there were once six, were removed in 1940. Internally the tower still has all its floors and stairs but all the machinery has been removed.

History

In kelly’s Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk of 1883, Ingleborough towermill is listed as being in the ownership of William Judd, a miller, baker and farmer. In Kelly's Directory of 1904, the proprietor was Henry Fretwell, a corn miller and the mill was said to powered by both wind & steam.