NHER 26409 (Monument record) - Carrow Works

Carrow Works.
Factory complex. Dates from around 1870 to around 1930.

A number of the surviving buildings are now listed Grade II including:
Blocks 7, 7A, 8 and 8A (NHER 58589). Brick, part around 1870, part dated 1881 and 1898; parapet 1939. Replaced original buildings of 1856 after a fire.
Block 60 (NHER 58591). Former barley and groat mill.
Block 92 (NHER 58590). 1857, 1874 and 1878; offices to original Paper Mill Yard.
Excluded from the listing are Blocks 5 and 20a-c in the centre of the complex.

For full details of construction and history see duplicate of (S1) and (S2) in file.

There is also a fine cast iron sewer vent pipe, noted by A. Rogerson (NLA) and Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society.
Compiled by E. Rose (NLA), 23 November 1993.

See Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society survey on fiche (includes 1985 survey of barley mill, ?now gone?).

1993. Desk Based Assessment.
Archaeological study and historical evaluation by RPS Clouston ahead of proposed development.
See reports (S3) and (S4). See also borehole logs (S5).
T. Sunley (NLA) 30 October 2007. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 25 March 2015.

Press cuttings (S6) and (S7) also in file.
T. Sunley (NLA) 30 October 2007.

See (S8) for the history of J. and J. Colman.
S. Howard (NLA), 13 May 2010.

NIAS have a comprehensive record of the site from surveys and historical sources including building assessments, listed building details, historic map analyses and sequential plans and lists of the buildings construction, demolition and modification dates as well as documents on company history,modern site re-development plans, details of the machinery used and a detailed photographic record.
See (S9)
W. Arnold (HES), 16 Febuary 2011.