NHER 10493 (Building record) - Caldecot or Bell Hill Mill

Drainage wind pump. Marked on (S1).
E. Rose (NAU).

July 1988. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Drainage windpump. Late 19th century. Three-storey tapering tarred brick tower with iron bands at each floor level. Temporary aluminium cap. Doors to east and west under segmental arches. One window over each door, that to east blocked. Curb track and rack with track and centering wheels. Remains of petticoat. Cast iron brakewheel, windshaft, and wallower. Timber upright shaft. Cast iron pitwheel. Brakewheel and pitwheel of clasp arm type. Pitwheel drives shaft to external pump housed in 20th-century timber outbuilding."
Information from (S2).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S2) for the current listing details.
E. Rose (NLA), 21 July 2005. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 25 October 2022.

1991.
Gutted by fire destroying timber upright shaft and pit wheel.
See (S3) In file.
E. Rose (NLA).

Bell Hill Mill tower mill, dated 1844.
Ceased working in the late 1930s and lost its sails and fan shortly after that. Disused with cap and gear in place. There were four patent sails and a scoop wheel.
The boat shaped cap had a fantail. The cap roof is now missing.
OS Records.
R. J.Rickett, 8 May 1990.

April 2005. Building Survey.
Condition survey undertaken as part of Broadland Flood Alleviation Project.
See report (S4) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 10 March 2015.

(S5) notes it was repaired 1937 by Arthur Thrower, who put iron bands round the tower, fitted a new stock and recogged the pit wheel.
E. Rose (NLA), 25 November 2005.