TIMES SUBJECT TO CHANGE DUE TO ONGOING REPAIRS IN 202612/4/26 14:00-17:00
10/5/26 14:00-17:00
14/6/26 14:30-17:00
12/7/26 14:30-17:00
9/8/26 14:30-17:00
13/9/26 14:30-17:00
(2nd Sunday April - Sept)
Essex County Council
Stock Tower Mill
Built around 1816 and a fine example of the millwright's craft of the late 19th century.
Restored to working order by Essex County Council.
The mill is open to the public on the afternoons of the second Sunday of each month from April
to September from 2pm till 5pm, as well as the National Mills Weekend in May of each year.
The mill is manned by volunteers from the Friends of Stock Windmill. Donations to the mill fund are welcome.
August/Sept 1958 vol 7 no 27:
p16-17
Preserving a Heritage by L A Leaver, County Planning Advisor.
Article about the 5 county owned windmills of Upminster, Aythorpe Roding, Stock, Mountnessing, and Finchingfield.
Mentions work at Finchingfield to replace weatherboarding and structural timber, plus 2 pairs of sails.
Mountnessing has a recent pair of sails.
Aythorpe Roding had had a request to make it available for house conversion.
Stock had a new pair of sails, and consideration of replacing the fantail was taking place.
Upminster will get a rebuilt gallery, and derelict buildings cleared away from around the mill.
Accompanied by photos of Aythorpe Roding, and Stock
June 67:
p628
article "Stock's fine tower mill" by Sam Johns
(number 1 in the series 'The windmills of Essex')
April 69:
p24-26 article "Stock Windmill" by Adrian N Jones describing the tower mill at Stock, with a cross-section drawing of the mill's layout, and a photo
Photos: (1) Farries 5 (a) great spur wheel, stone nut and bevel gear for engine drive; (2) Farries 2 (a) w/o, 1935 (b) brakewheel (c) stone-raising drum (3) D W Smith (a) brakewheel
A brick tower mill with a boat-shaped cap, patent sails, fantail and three pairs of
millstones, dating back to c1816; it worked by wind power until c1930 and then by steam only
until c1935; repairs were carried out in 1956 and 1978; a full restoration took place in
1991-1993 and again, after storm damage, in 2024
(colour slide)
(W B Muggeridge plate glass negative)
(W B Muggeridge plate glass negative)
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