Description

MOUNTNESSING

TQ69NW ROMAN ROAD
723-1/6/473 (North side (off))
29/12/52 Mountnessing Windmill
(Formerly Listed as:
BRENTWOOD
THOBY LANE, Mountnessing
The Windmill)

II*

Windmill. 1807. For the Agnis family, owners and millers.
Restored 1979-83. Roundhouse of red brick in Flemish bond,
roofed with sheet metal over boarding; brick timber-framed and
weatherboarded, roofed with sheet metal over boards.
Roundhouse 16-sided, with two C20 plain boarded doors, conical
roof. Buck slightly bayed on weather face. Two C20 fixed
lights in each side, and 2 more at rear. Tailpole and steps to
C20 plain boarded door at rear. Barrel vault roof. 4
single-shuttered spring sails. Sited on a mound. The original
cross-trees, quarter bars and post are mounted on stepped
brick piers (the W pier repaired, all the packing pieces
renewed, bolted splints on 3 of the quarter bars and
cross-tree ends). Original tail pole, original large timbers
to steps, treads renewed. The buck was rebuilt 1979-83 by
Vincent Pargeter, staff millwright to Essex County Council,
retaining the original crown-tree, side girts, weather beam,
spindle beam, tail beam, 2 sills, and some lesser timbers; the
left side girt is reinforced internally with a rolled steel
joist. 2 pairs of under-driven head stones of French burr; one
runner has been removed for demonstration. Cast-iron windshaft
from the working mill, but probably second-hand when
originally installed there. Wooden brake wheel and wallower
rebuilt, retaining parts of the originals. All the internal
fittings and machinery have been built since 1979 by Peter
Stenning of Kent and Richard Seago of Norfolk; some framing of
the original bins retained and reused. Many graffiti on the
post include pictures of windmills, an inscription `Penny,
1821' and another `W Cadman, 1827'. Painted date 1807 on
crown-tree.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the mill was built and operated by the Agnis
family continuously form 1807 to 1924, and again briefly
1932-3, acquired by Mountnessing Parish Council in 1956, and
later by Essex County Council. It is the second windmill in
Essex to be restored to working order, the first being at
Aythorpe Roding. New machinery and fittings.
(Farries KG: Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights: 1985-:
80-83; Historic Buildings in Essex 3: Wooding R: Mountnessing
Windmill: 1986-: 2-4; Wooding R & Pargeter VG: Mountnessing
Windmill, its history, restoration and how it works: undated).

Listing NGR: TQ6309997967

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Mountnessing Windmill at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q6925820

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Recommended Books

• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)