Mill name Hurt Wood Mill Operator(s) Private Type Tower mill Year built 1845 | Grid reference TQ 078 427 Purpose Corn mill Storeys Four storeys Windshaft Cast iron | |
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Hurt Wood Mill is a grade II* listed tower mill at Ewhurst, Surrey, England which has been converted to residential use.
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History
Hurt Wood Mill was built in the 1845, replacing a post mill that had been blown down. The post mill was standing in 1648. The mill worked by wind until c1885 and the sails and fantail were removed shortly afterwards. The mill was house converted at some point, with two new sails being fitted in 1914. In 1937 four new sails and two new stocks were fitted by Neve's, the Heathfield millwrights.
Description
Hurt Wood Mill is a four storey brick tower mill with an ogee cap. It had four Patent sails carried on a cast iron windshaft. The cap was winded by a fantail. The clasp arm Brake Wheel is wooden. When the mill was a working mill, it had sails that rotated anticlockwise, but those fitted in 1937 would have rotated clockwise had they been a working set. The sails carried today are clockwise sails and the fantail is missing.
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Culture and media
Hurt Wood Mill appears on the crest of a hill in the painting "Harvest Time" by George Vicat Cole (1833–1893), which is now in Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. It also appeared in an episode of The Tomorrow People titled The Doomsday Men.