Record Details
| NHER Number: | 23023 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Wainford maltings and mill |
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Summary
This unusual early 19th century maltings building with iron columns, is marked on the 1836 Ordnance Survey map as being next to or incorporated with the watermill. Further buildings were added in the later 19th century, some to house driving machinery. Part or all of the site was demolished in 1987.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 35011 90190 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM39SE |
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| Parish: | BROOME, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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| DITCHINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Early 19th century uncommon building with iron columns, since reroofed so that outlined changed; six other maltings added about 1880-1890 plus a Saladin building to take a box turner, at that time newly invented in France. Now used for storage.
Information from Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society records (fiche at NAU).
E. Rose (NAU),31 October 1986.
Demolished May 1987; the Saladin building at least; how much of remainder not known.
Information from South Norfolk District Council.
E. Rose (NAU), 21 May 1987.
It would appear from (S1) that in 1838 the maltings were adjacent to or incorporated in the watermill, marked as Wainford Mills, which (S2) states was there in the 18th century and in 1864 had a steam engine with a Cornish boiler installed.
E. Rose (NLA), 1 December 2003.
(S3) shows the full extent of this large complex of mill and maltings extending into Broome parish (and also across the border into Suffolk).
E. Rose (NLA), 14 November 2006.
Monument Types
- MALTINGS (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- WATERMILL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Fiche: Exists. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1987. What became of coins and grain?. 3 August. |
| <S1> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1824-1836. Ordnance Survey First Edition 1 inch.. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Best, D.. 2003. Bungay Navigation.. NIAS Journal. Vol 7 no 3. p 26. |
| <S3> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1883. First edition six inch map. |
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