Ovenden's Mill, Polegate

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Polegate Windmill
The mill in 1997
Origin
Mill name	Ovenden's Mill Mockett's Mill
Mill location	TQ 582 041 50°48′54″N 0°14′38″E / 50.815°N 0.244°E / 50.815; 0.244
Operator(s)	Private
Year built	1817
Information
Purpose	Corn mill
Type	Tower mill
Storeys	Four storeys
Number of sails	Four sails
Type of sails	Patent sails
Windshaft	Cast iron
Winding	Fantail
Fantail blades	Six blades
Auxiliary power	Engine
Number of pairs of millstones	Two pairs, a third pair driven by engine

Ovenden's Mill or Mockett's Mill is a grade II* listed^[1] tower mill at Polegate, East Sussex, England which has been restored and is open to the public.

History

Ovenden's Mill was built in 1817 and was working by wind until 1943.^[2] The mill was worked by auxiliary engine, latterly an electric motor, until 1965. By the time the mill stopped working, it was becoming derelict. Eastbourne and District Preservation Trust bough the mill and grounds, and a restoration carried out by E Hole and Sons, the Burgess Hill millwrights. One of the new stocks broke in July 1974, bringing the sail with it. This particular stock was only seven years old. Thompson's, the Alford millwrights fitted a replacement stock and two new sails in May 1976.^[3] Further restoration work was undertaken in 2004,^[4] including the fitting of a cowl to the adjoining malthouse.^[5] Two new sails were fitted in 2009.

Description

Ovenden's Mill is a four storey brick tower mill with a domed cap winded by a fantail. There is a stage at first floor level. It had four Patent sails carried on a cast iron Windshaft. The Brake Wheel is wooden. The mill drove two pairs of overdrift millstones, with a third pair driven underdrift by auxiliary engine.^[3] The tower is 45 feet (13.72 m) high to the curb.^[2]

Millers

Joseph Seymour 1817 - 1857
Mathias Mockett 1857 -
George Thomas
Ephraim Ovenden 1918 -
Albert Ovenden - 1965

References for above:-^[3]

References

↑ "MOCKETT'S MILL, PARK CROFT, POLEGATE, WEALDEN, EAST SUSSEX". English Heritage. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
↑ 2.0 2.1 "Polegate Windmill". All About Sussex. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Brunnarius, Martin (1979). The Windmills of Sussex. Chichester: Philimore. pp. p85–87, 191. ISBN 0-85033-345-8.
↑ "Polegate Windmill, East Sussex - 17th October 2004". Roughwood. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
↑ "COWL SET IN PLACE AT OLD MALTHOUSE". Eastbourne Herald. Retrieved 2008-05-13.

External links

Windmill World Page on Polegate windmill.

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