A windmill is a popular and striking landscape or townscape feature. For this reason, a number of so called "mock mills" have been
constructed in the UK. The definition of a mock mill is a building constructed to look like a windmill, but which
was never capable of using wind as a power source.
A number of these have been built as pubs or restaurants, sometimes employing millwrights who also work on true mills.
Their appearance ranges from the authentic, through to the crude.
I have explicitly excluded a number of "large model" windmills, which are much smaller than building size.
smock25ft mill replica, made from bedsteads, and car axle - possibly capable of electrical generation
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Ladbrook's Mill:
post mill
2 bedroomed house, built 2006, resembling a post mill, built on the same site, and using some recycled bricks
from the demolished roundhouse of the original Ladbroke's Mill.
smockplanned in the 1960's as a new dummy mill body to house the transplanted machinery from Jolesfield mill.
However this was never installed, and over many years the real mill remnants mostly simply rotted away outside.
The mock mill instead had some dummy sails attached, but even they are long gone.
Sign says:
The Jolesfield windmill was bought by Nevvar Hickmet, owner of Gatwick Manor, in August 1959.
The windmill, built in 1790, was dismantled from its site in Littleworth near Partridge Green
and re-erected at Gatwick Manor, where it stands today.
It is reputed that the windmill was never retored to working order as its total height with sails
would be 50ft and thus interfere with air traffic. The equipment was put on display on the grounds
in fron of the windmill.
towerVague windmill tower like building built after original mill tower on same site was demolished in 2003.
Attached to the UK offices of Dantherm Air Handling Ltd.
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towerbuilt as a pub 1996. Although the developers would have liked to include a cap and sails, the planning authorities
refused permission for those, partly on the grounds that it could then be more easily confused with a real windmill.
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Splash windmill:
residential smock
Built by Glyn Larcombe in 1996 as a house, styled after Lacey Green mill.
Building cost about £45,000, and used recycled timbers, including some from Tilbury docks.
Appeared in House Beautiful magazine in July 2004, and on Granada TV's "60 Minute Makeover" filmed Sept 2004, (aired Feb 2005).
Currently run as a guesthouse.
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Historical locations
Blackpool
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SD305341smockPart of the illuminations, once described as "20ft plywood windmill, little more than a cunning disguise for a
ventilation shaft". Originally built in Manchester Square in 1931, then moved to the promenade opposite
Waterloo Road in 1963. Placed in storage in 2005.
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