It was built in 1665 by Thomas Budgen of Nutfield, and is what is known as a Post Mill; the whole body, weighing around 25 tons, rotates on a central post made of a single enormous oak tree, to bring the mill round into the wind.

The mill body has two main floors, the top one of which houses the two pairs of French burr millstones, as well as the oak windshaft, on which the sails revolve, and the huge brakewheel and tailwheel with their wooden cogs.
On the lower floor are the flour bins and the miller’s desk, as well as the upper portion of the main post.  

The mill is at present used  to produce flour, but only for sale to visitors to the mill, as there is no auxiliary power source in the absence of the wind.

The mill is currently open to the public on Sunday afternoons, from Easter to October, plus other times for parties by appointment.  

The roundhouse at the base of the mill has a hand quern to show the operation of the millstones, & which visitors may use to mill flour for themselves. 

For evening visits, the interior of the mill can be illuminated.

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