On 30 August 1950, the miller was trapped in the machinery and killed, despite the best efforts of the fire brigade to rescue him.

The mill was house converted in 1970, with the major machinery being retained, and its external appearance restored.

[2] Terling Windmill is a four-storey smock mill on a single-storey brick base.

[4] The smock shows signs of having been dismantled and transported in sections at some point, with the cant posts being newer than the framing.

[2] The wooden Brake Wheel is of clasp arm construction, 10 feet 8 inches (3.25 m) diameter, with 96 cogs.

At the lower end of the 25 feet (7.62 m) long wooden Upright Shaft is the clasp arm Great Spur Wheel, which has 108 cogs, and drove three pairs of millstones.

[2] Terling Windmill was winded by an eight-bladed fantail, driving an iron worm on the curb.