Record Details
| NHER Number: | 15002 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Mill House (site of former watermill/flour mill) |
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Summary
The Ordnance Survey marks a watermill at this location, whilst Faden’s map of 1797 indicates a flour mill once stood here. The mill has been demolished, but Mill House dating to around 1800 survives and is a grade II listed building.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 7891 1497 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF71SE |
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| Parish: | WESTACRE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
October 1951. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description:
Mill House. c.1800. Red brick, red pantiled roof. 3 storeys, 5 bays. 4 ground and 5 first floor arched wooden framed plate glass sashes with single glazing bars division. 5 second floor straight headed plate glass sashes with single glazing bar division. Central pedimented doorcase and panelled door. First floor plat-band. Parapet, gables, and 3 bays to east and details replaced after fire c.1959. Double pile wings at south. Return at south-west has coursed, squared carstone blocks, smut and red pantiles. 2 storeys, 3 bays. 2 ground and 3 first floor sashes with glazing bars, brick rustication and flat arches. Central wooden doorcase, fluted arched surround, 6 panel raised and fielded door with glazing bar fanlight. Second pile at east rebuilt.
Information from (S1).
Watermill (on Ordnance Survey).
Marked on Faden's map 1797 as flour mill.
E. Rose (NAU) 1 June 1979.
Mill has been demolished, but Mill House of around 1800, part rebuilt, survives and is listed grade II - not clear from description if the house is of archaeological interest.
E. Rose (NAU) 24 February 1986.
Press cutting (S3) in file.
Monument Types
- FLOUR MILL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- WATERMILL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- HOUSE (18th Century to 21st Century - 1800 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. |
| --- | Publication: The Nar Valley Group of Parishes. 2007. Voices of the Nar - celebrating a decade in the life of the Nar valley group of parishes. Mill House, Westacre. |
| --- | Slide: Ashley, H.. 1953. West Acre. |
| <S1> | Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1171823. |
| <S2> | Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797. |
| <S3> | Newspaper Article: Lynn News. 1990. [Photograph of former mill, taken around 1950]. 20 November. |
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