English Heritage Sibsey Trader Mill
Rising above the flat fenland landscape, this massive windmill was built in 1877. It processed locally grown wheat, barley and oats into flour and animal feed, and remained in commercial use until the 1950s. One of the last Lincolnshire windmills to be built, it is a superb example of Victorian engineering and traditional technology, and one of very few six-sailed windmills still surviving. Recent conservation work has brought the mill back into full working order, complete with its six sails and a new rotating cap.
We designed all the interpretation and took a pared back approach that was sensitive to the surrounding materials and the fact that this is still a working mill. Designed in collaboration with Skellon Studio.
