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Windmill at Great Thurlow, Suffolk this grade II listed build is currently under repair. ' We are pleased to report that much-needed repairs to the smock mill at Great Thurlow near Haverhill are finally under way. Contractor John Younger removed the remains of the sails and stocks, together with the fantail, by crane on April 6th. Later in the month new scaffolding was erected, providing access for repairing and re-boarding the smock and cladding the cap roof in aluminium. The sails and fantail will not be replaced and the external parts of the sheers (heavily reinforced with metalwork) will be removed. SMG has provided detailed guidance on the aluminium cladding, and Chris Hullcoop will make a pattern for one of the 15 new roof ribs to overlap the top of the tower to form a petticoat (the existing felt cladding is sealed down onto the boarding). The work, funded by the Thurlow Estate who own the mill, is expected to be completed by September 2011.
All of the outer layer of weatherboards (applied in the 1962 restoration) have been removed, together with some of the inner boards. This has revealed more areas of damage to the frame, some of it from rodent runs. One of the inner weatherboards bears the inscription ‘Richard Hayward Augst th 15 1878’, proof that this layer of boarding is also not original. ' Extract from Suffolk Mills Group web site see Link (Archive Link ) . For more info on the history see Link