Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8021 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Post medieval windmill |
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Summary
A tarred brick tower mill built in about 1880. The tower remains, and although disused, is remarkable in that it retains almost all of its interior machiney.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2460 1775 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG21NW |
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| Parish: | FRETTENHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Windmill. Brick tower of tower mill, now roofed but has weeds growing out of this. Semi derelict. Used as a store?
Seen by E. Rose (NAU), 3 March 1977.
A windmill is marked about here on (S1) but it is very difficult to tell if it is this one, or slightly to the southwest.
E. Rose (NAU).
The mill marked on (S1) is in fact on site NHER 17899. This mill (NHER 8021) was built in 1880 and closed in 1900. Information from [1].
E. Rose (NAU), 2 February 1982.
Added to (S2) in 1992 because of machinery remaining inside.
June 1990. Listed, Grade II.
The mill is dated to about 1880; five storeys with loading doors at first floor, iron gallery remains on second floor. Intact cast iron track and rack, virtually complete set of machinery; wooden clasp arm, great spur wheel with wooden teeth and cast iron crown wheel with wooden teeth; drive shaft to auxiliary machinery formerly in adjacent barn; two under driven stone nuts. Two French stones and one runner on floor. Wooden chamfered drive shaft.
See (S2) for the complete listing details.
E. Rose (NLA), 2 December 1992.
November 2008.
The mill has been converted to residential accommodation, with replica staircases and round rooms with wooden floors. The workings of the original mill and the grindstone still remain.
See (S3) and (S4) for details,
H. White, (NLA), 5 February 2010
Monument Types
- TOWER MILL (19th Century to 21st Century - 1880 AD to 2100 AD)
- WINDMILL (19th Century to 21st Century - 1880 AD to 2100 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Monograph: Pevsner, N. and Wilson, B. 1997. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 474. |
| --- | Designation: English Heritage. 1990-2013. English Heritage Listing Notification. Notification. DNF1954. |
| <S1> | Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797. |
| <S2> | Designation: English Heritage. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1372988. |
| <S3> | Website: Neville, J.. 2005. Frettenham towermill. http://www.norfolkmills.co.uk/Windmills/frettenham-towermill.html. 4 February 2010. |
| <S4> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 2008. Feel on top of the world at old mill. 7 November. |
Related records
| MNO1223 | Related to: Frettenham Cornmill Mill Lane FRETTENHAM (Revoked) |
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