Brent Pelham Windmill is a Grade II listed smock mill

Smock mill

The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind...

 at Brent Pelham

Brent Pelham

Brent Pelham is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The village is one of the Pelhams, along with Stocking Pelham and Furneaux Pelham. Near St Mary's church are ancient stocks which could accommodate up to three people at once. A derelict windmill survives in the village....

, Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.The county is one of the Home Counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London , Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 which is derelict.

History

Brent Pelham Mill was built in 1826 by William Halden, who was at Meesden windmill in 1827. It was working until at least 1890 and was disused by 1898. At some point the mill was stripped of machinery and a water tank was built on the smock tower. The mill survives in this form today, clad in corrugated iron.

Description

Brent Pelham Mill is a two storey smock mill on a single storey brick base. It had four sails and drove two pairs of millstones. The weatherboarding is vertical, and survives under the corrugated iron.

Millers

• Peter Harris 1839-54
• Thomas Miles 1855-63
• Walter Watson 1863-90

Reference for above:-

External links

• Windmill World webpage on Brent Pelham Mill.