NHER 10404 (Building record) - South Walsham or Howard's Drainage Mill

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Summary

A restored 19th century drainage mill with a tarred brick tower and a boat-shaped cap. The mill's Victorian machinery survives intact and parts of it are rare survivals.

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Location

Map sheet TG40NE
Civil Parish HALVERGATE, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Map

South Walsham Marshes.

May 1979. Visited.
Brick tower, secured by iron tieband. Remains of boat shaped cap, now mostly replaced in corrugated iron. This must be recent as cap appears in (S1)'s photograph.Two stocks remain, with traces of Cubitt's patent sails. Scoop wheel.
Upper windows glazed (not original) and apparently still kept in some sort of repair.
See (S2) which shows a drainage mill on this site.
E. Rose (NAU), 3 May 1979.

(S3) notes cast iron sheer extensions, one of only two remaining examples on Norfolk Broads.
E. Rose (NAU), 11 December 1985.

Rebuilt by William T England whose name is cast into one of the iron supports with the date 1921 (S4).
E. Rose (NLA), 29 November 2005.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Monograph: Smith, A.. 1978. Drainage Windmills of the Norfolk Marshes.. No 27.
  • <S2> Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797.
  • <S3> Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1304660.
  • <S4> Article in Serial: Allard, P.. 2005. William T. England, Yarmouth Millwright. Yarmouth Archaeology. p 22.

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Record last edited

Aug 30 2018 2:49PM

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