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SOUTH OCKENDON WINDMILL (2)
| by Susan Yates | |
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The smock frame of
the mill was approximately 30ft. 6in. high and consisted
of four floors. The smock itself tapered from 26ft. 3in.
across the flats on the outside to 16ft. 2in. across the
curb exterior (the curb is the neck of the smock below
the cap). Internally the width tapered from 24ft. 5in. to
14ft. 6in. The overall height of the mill (from the
cellar to the ridge of the cap) was 58ft. approximately,
and 84ft. roughly to the top of the sails. The sails
measured 64ft. in diameter and one pair was single
shuttered patents and the other pair double shuttered
patents. The floorboards were made from pine and elm. The
cap which was boat shaped had horizontal weatherboarding
and the petticoat had vertical boarding. In fact the only
Essex smock mill to be boarded horizontally on the
petticoat was the old smock mill at Galleywood. At the
rear of the cap at a 90 degree angle to the sails was the
fantail.
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