Drinkstone windmills

Drinkstone Windmills are a pair of windmills at Drinkstone, Suffolk, England. They consist a post mill and a smock mill. The post mill is Grade I listed and the smock mill is Grade II* listed. The mills were known as Clover's Mills as they were always worked by the Clover family.

Drinkstone Post Mill
Drinkstone post mill
Origin
Mill nameClover's Mill
Grid referenceTL 964 622
Coordinates52.2234°N 0.8747°E / 52.2234; 0.8747
Operator(s)Private
Year built1689
Information
PurposeCorn mill
TypePost mill
Roundhouse storeysSingle storey roundhouse
No. of sailsFour sails
Type of sailsTwo Spring sails, two Common sails
WindshaftWood, with cast iron poll end
WindingFantail
No. of pairs of millstonesTwo pairs
Drinkstone Smock Mill
Drinkstone smock mill
Origin
Mill nameClover's Mill
Grid referenceTL 962 622
Operator(s)Private
Year built1780
Information
PurposeCorn mill
TypeSmock mill
StoreysTwo-storey smock
Base storeyssingle-storey base
Smock sidesEight sides
No. of sailsFour sails
Type of sailsTwo Spring sails and two Common sails
WindshaftWood
WindingFantail
Other informationBase formerly a horse mill
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