Aldeburgh Windmill | |
Name Of Mill: | Fort Green Mill |
Coordinates: | 52.1461°N 1.6025°W |
Operator: | Private |
Built: | 1824 |
Purpose: | Corn mill |
Type: | Tower mill |
Storeys: | Four storeys |
Sail Number: | Four sails |
Sail Type: | Patent sails |
Windshaft: | Cast iron |
Winding: | Fantail |
Fantail Blades: | Six blades |
Pairs Of Millstones: | Two pairs |
Fort Green Mill is a tower mill at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England which has been converted to residential accommodation.
Fort Green Mill was built in 1824. It was converted into a house in 1902.[1] During the Second World War it was used as a gun emplacement.[2]
It was put up for sale in 2016.[3]
Fort Green Mill is a four-storey tower mill. It had four patent sails and the domed cap was winded by a fantail. It had two pairs of millstones.[4] A photograph of the working mill (above) shows that the sails were double patents carried on a cast-iron windshaft and the fantail had six blades.There is an inscription in Danish, formerly above one of the doors, now on a wall, "Herren skal bevare din udgang og din indgang". It means "The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in," from Psalm 121 verse 8.