Nyetimber Mill in 2005
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Nyetimber Mill is a Grade II listedStructure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection. former windmill in Pagham, Sussex, built in about 1840.[1] It was a four-storey brick tower mill with an ogee cap and four sails, winded by a fantail. The mill drove two pairs of millstones.[2]
The mill was in operation grinding corn until 1915.[2] Its last miller and owner, John Durman, blamed the government of the day for the mill’s closure; the mill ground corn for the consumption of cattle, but during the First World War the government decided that only grinding for human consumption should be permitted.[3]
Durman sold the mill in 1960.[3] It was burnt out in 1962,[2] and subsequently fell into disrepair.[2][4]
As at 2025, Nyetimber Mill is part of a retirement complex of 52 flats and bungalows built in 1982.[5]