NHER 10492 (Building record) - Six Mile or Chedgrave Detached Drainage Windmill, Haddiscoe Island

Drainage pump.
Brick tower survives, with some of cap machinery.
Seen from across river.
E. Rose (NAU), 22 September 1976.

Drainage mill on this site marked on (S1).
(S2) describes as mid 19th century, four storeys, with opposing doors.
Flue within wall thickness.
Remains of capframe, windshaft and wallower; octagonal wooden upright driveshaft to cast iron wallower.
E. Rose (NAU), 9 August 1989.

August 2005. Building Survey.
Condition survey undertaken as part of Broadland Flood Alleviation Project.
See report (S3) for further details.
E. Rose (NLA), 6 September 2005. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 10 March 2015.

A mill site probably of 18th century origin. The brick tower appears to have been partially rebuilt in the later 19th century however, the mill retained the older manual form of turning the cap into the wind and last worked with canvas covered common sails. According to (S4) it last worked by wind c. 1946, after which the mill's scoopwheel was powered by a series of diesel engines and tractors. The mill retains its windshaft, remains of the timber brakewheel, and a timber horizontal scoopwheel shaft.
(S4) includes further details of the mill, particularly its more recent history.
A. Yardy (HES), 17 August 2011.