Tutelina Mill, also known as Clarke's Mill, is a Grade II listed tower mill

Tower mill

A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind....

 at Great Welnetham, Suffolk

Suffolk

Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...

, England

England

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 which has been conserved.

History

Tutelina Mill was built in 1865. A steam mill was erected nearby. The windmill worked by wind until 1910. The sails were removed in 1916, and the mill was worked by a Crossley engine until the mid 1960s.

Description

Tutelina Mill is a small four storey tower mill. The tower is 28 in 6 in (8.69 m) to the curb. It had a domed cap, winded by a fantail. The four Patent sails drove two pairs of millstones. The wallower is cast iron

Cast iron

Cast iron is derived from pig iron, and while it usually refers to gray iron, it also identifies a large group of ferrous alloys which solidify with a eutectic. The color of a fractured surface can be used to identify an alloy. White cast iron is named after its white surface when fractured, due...

with wooden teeth, carried on a cast iron upright shaft. The great spur wheel is also cast iron with wooden teeth.

External links

• Windmill World webpage on Tutelina Mill.
• 2007 photo of the mill.