Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8067 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Horstead Mill |
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Summary
A late 18th century watermill, which may have been built on the site of a 16th century mill. The mill burnt down in 1963.
Images - none
Location
Full description
Horstead Watermill.
Built 1790, burnt down 1963, see [1].
This stands on the site of an Elizabethan or earlier mill, see map reproduced in (S1); copied in (S2).
E. Rose (NAU) 22 March 1982.
The Lock Cut was made in 1775, so is the date of 1790 correct? Or Is this a rebuilding?
(S3) described this as weatherboarded, ground floor on arches, six small gables, across road from millers house.
Now a picturesque overgrown ruin after fire, two or more ranges of parallel brick arches standing above the sluices; modern weir inserted.
Visited E. Rose (NAU), 26 May 1983.
Turbine from mill now in grounds of Gressenhall Rural Life Museum.
E. Rose (NAU), 23 June 1988.
Monument Types
- HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- WATERMILL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- WATERMILL (Post Medieval to Mid 20th Century - 1540 AD to 1963 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1983-1984. [Articles on the planning decision for the site of Horstead Mill]. |
| --- | Illustration: Various. Various. Architectural plans. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Evening News. 1997. It was then. 1 October. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1993. [Photograph of Horstead Mill before the fire of 1963]. 27 January. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1992. [Photograph of Horstead Mill]. 24 September. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1997. Beauty spot idea for burned-down mill. 1 February. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1999. Clearing up fire damage - after nearly 40 years. 13 December. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1963. [Article and letter to the editor about the fire at Horstead Mill]. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1960. Mill to lose link with past. 11 March. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1973. Mill ruins may soon go. 11 May. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1991. Mill water 'danger to children' claim. 20 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 569. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1997. Fine mill before fire struck. 5 February. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1963. [Photograph of Horstead Mill after the fire]. 24 January. |
| --- | Photograph: EGL 36. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Corbett, W.J.. 1897. Elizabethan Village Surveys.. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society New Series. Vol XI. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Campbell, B. M. S. 1981. The Extent and Layout of Commonfields in Eastern Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXVIII Pt I pp 5-32. p 9. |
| <S3> | Monograph: Pevsner, N. 1962. North-East Norfolk and Norwich. The Buildings of England. 1st Edition. p 173; Pl 2b. |
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