The mill has since won two national awards – one for a zinc roof no one had clad a building of that shape in before, and another for a slatted oak ceiling built to look like the inside of a boat hull
HomeInspire visited The Windmill, a converted 1891 mill near Lavenham, Suffolk, that Natalie and Steve transformed into a five-storey holiday home over the best part of a decade. Bought as a derelict shell with no cap, no sails and nothing historical left to restore, the mill has since won two national awards – one for a zinc roof no one had clad a building of that shape in before, and another for a slatted oak ceiling built to look like the inside of a boat hull. From ground level it still reads as a windmill from old photographs of the 1920s. Inside, almost nothing is straight.
