Record Details
| NHER Number: | 7448 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Smallburgh Mill, Wayford Bridge |
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Summary
The surviving brick tower of a combined 19th century corn and drainage mill. It was converted to a house in the late 1970s.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 344 248 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG32SW |
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| Parish: | SMALLBURGH, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
January 1976. Visit.
Windmill.
Tower mill. Brick tower survives, battered, but wooden floors and beams in interior in good condition. No machinery. Small fireplace on ground floor, which is about 4.3m (14 feet) wide, narrow for a mill. Remains of millstone buried outside door. Outside to west an underground brick culvert, part of top collapsed, leads to stream; remains of structure above it, and mill tower is flattened at base at this point.
Yet it is a mill and not a drainage pump.
E. Rose (NAU), 14 January 1976.
9 February 1976.
Information from Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society that this functioned as both a corn mill and a drainage pump.
E. Rose (NAU).
Used as corn mill 1850 to 1863, and mentioned as drain pump in 1913.
E. Rose (NAU), 23 March 1982.
Press cuttings (S1), (S2) and (S3) in file.
Architects drawings (pre 1992) as large rolled plans. E. Rose (NAU).
Architects plans (S4) (1996) in file.
6 July 1994. NLA air photography.
Tower of mill intact and visible.
M. Brennand (NLA), 13 March 2001.
Monument Types
- WATERCOURSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- DRAINAGE MILL (19th Century to 21st Century - 1830 AD to 2100 AD)
- WINDMILL (19th Century to 21st Century - 1830 AD to 2100 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1994. TG3424/F - K. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1994. TG3424/A - D. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | *Rolled Plan: Large Plan Exists. |
| <S1> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1984. Wayford Mill scheme. 3 March. |
| <S2> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1988-1989. [Articles on the proposal to extend Smallburgh Mill]. |
| <S3> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1996. Extension to mill refused. 1 October. |
| <S4> | Illustration: Various. Various. Architectural plans. |
Related records - none
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