Shenfield Common Windmill

The Shenfield Common Windmill was built on the eastern side of Shenfield Common, now the site of Mill Hill House. It was probably built in the 19th century (certainly after 1777 and before 1871) replacing one of a pair of windmills that stood on the site of Rose Bank.

The plan of the mill, shown on the 1871 ordinance survey map, suggests that it may have been a smock mill similar to ones built at South Ockenden and Upminster around the same time.

James Spencer is recorded as a journeyman miller living on Ingrave Road in the 1851 Census - he may have been the miller who owned the Shenfield Common mill since the mill was next to Ingrave Road.

It gradually became redundant after the construction of a steam mill on Queen's Road in the 1840s, and was demolished around 1900 to make way for the construction of Mill Hill House.