Barnet Gate Mill or Arkley Windmill is a grade II* listed tower mill at Barnet Gate in the London Borough of Barnet, originally in Hertfordshire.[1] There is no public access.

History

Barnet Gate Mill was probably built between 1822 and 1840.[1] A claim that it was built during the Napoleonic Wars (c.1800) has not been substantiated. Although steam had been added in 1895,[2] it was working by wind until 1916.[1] The mill was restored in 1930.[3] A new cap, fantail and gallery around the cap being made. The work was done by Thomas Hunt, the Soham millwright. In a further restoration in 1985, the missing pair of sails was replaced.[2]

Description

For an explanation of the various pieces of machinery, see Mill machinery.

Barnet Gate Mill is a four-storey tower mill with an ogee cap which has a gallery. It has two Patent sails and two Common sails carried on a cast iron windshaft. The cap is winded by a fantail.[2]

Machinery

The mill may have started life with two Common sails and two Spring sails carried on a wooden windshaft as the wooden clasp arm Brake Wheel has had to be fitted with packing pieces to enable it to fit the current windshaft, which being of iron is a smaller diameter than a wooden one would be. The Wallower is of cast iron, carried on a wooden upright shaft. This carries the Great Spur Wheel, which is of iron with wooden cogs and drove the two pairs of millstones underdrift. A third pair was added when steam power was installed. Only one pair of millstones remains today.[2]

Millers

  • John Whitehead 1843–1851
  • Frederick Edwards 1870–1899
  • Noah Edwards 1896–1918[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Historic England. "ARKLEY WINDMILL, BARNET ROAD, BARNET, BARNET, GREATER LONDON (1359022)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 May 2008.
  2. ^ a b c d e Moore, Cyril (1999). Hertfordshire Windmills & Windmillers. Sawbridgeworth: Windsup Publishing. pp. 42–44. ISBN 0-9533861-0-4.
  3. ^ "Arkley and Barnet Gate". Barnet Online. Archived from the original on 24 January 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2008.

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