Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8554 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Thurne Dyke Drainage Mill |
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Summary
A restored early 19th century drainage mill. The mill is built of brick with a timber weatherboarded cap, four sails and a fantail.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 4005 1591 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG41NW |
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| Parish: | THURNE, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Drainage mill. Built 1820.
Restored in 1949 to 1955; new sails 1962.
Weatherboarded, cap at odd straight section top above tapering body.
Visited by E. Rose (NAU) 29 May 1978.
Worked until about 1940.
Restored again 1981.
See (S1).
Revisited when open 28 August 1984; but sails removed for repair.
However fantail working. Main vertical shaft composed of square sectioned timbers bolted together and meeting at an iron joint in very low third storey (mill of four storeys). Small fireplace in base. Horizontal shaft to turbine on exterior.
E. Rose (NAU) 29 August 1984.
Sails replaced by September 1984.
The 'odd straight section' is an adddition made when the mill was converted from cloth to patent sails.
Information from millwright.
E. Rose (NAU) 8 February 1985.
(S2) (pre 1992) as large rolled plans.
E. Rose (NLA)
Since 2002, the sails have been run on selected open days. In 2008, restoration of the water pump itself was completed and a demonstration was planned on 11 May, but was not possible due to weather.
See (S3) for further details.
H. Hamilton (NLA), 27 May 2008.
Monument Types
- DRAINAGE MILL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1979. Sails of land and water. 13 August. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1979. Thurne pump taken over. 2 October. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1987. [Photograph of Thurne Dyke Mill]. 26 February. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1984. New sails set on landmark of Broadland. 6 September. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1994. TG4015/T - W. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 41 NW 5b. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1984. Age-old techniques used to restore Norfolk mills. 18 August. |
| --- | 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 695. |
| --- | Photograph: 12 Transparency. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 2002. Bob's mill takes its turn at last. 19 September. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1993. Finance setback to mill project. 13 February. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1997. [Photograph of Thurne Dyke Mill]. 9 October. |
| --- | Photograph: Photographs of Thurne Dyke Drainage Mill. Colour. |
| --- | *Rolled Plan: Large Plan Exists. |
| --- | Fiche: Exists. |
| --- | Photograph: CQX16. |
| <S1> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1981. [Article on a viewing of Thurne Dyke Drainage Mill after during restoration work]. 21 May. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Various. Various. Architectural plans. |
| <S3> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 2008. Heatwave becalms mill's pump bid. 12 May. |
Related records
| 45083 | Related to: Post medieval causeway and/or flood bank associated with Thurne Mill (Monument) |
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