Listed Building: BUCK OF FORMER POST MILL AT ALDER CARR FARM (279318)

CREETING ST. MARY ST. MARY'S ROAD TM 05 NE 4/69 Buck of former post mill - at Alder Carr Farm (formerly listed as 9-12-55 dovecote at Houghton Park - Farmhouse) II The body or buck of a post mill, now disused. Early C19, originally built some ½ mile to the north. Moved here before 1880 after which it was used as a dovecote. Timber framed and weatherboarded; as a dovecote it had a hipped roof with gablets, now gone. Plastered internally with the nesting boxes still in place, the original floors removed. Post mill bucks were occasionally taken down and re-used in this manner; this is believed to be the last such example in the country. It is of considerable interest because it was moved in one piece and the original frame survives intact. Listing NGR: TM0912955256