NHER 6766 (Monument record) - Roughton Mill

Windmill. Dated 1814.
15m (52ft) tall tower mill of brick, 5 storeys no cap or machinery remains. Adjoining granaries once tied in by beams destroyed by fire. Was constructed in four sections according to workmen who are now restoring it as part of a Scout HQ.
See (S1) in file.
Visited E. Rose (NAU) 9 October 1978.

An earlier mill on the site is marked on (S2).
E. Rose (NAU).

Present mill burnt out 1906.
E. Rose (NAU).

Old photos shown by BBC show the mill had Cubitt's patent sails. Restoration now complete with names of restorers inscribed round parapet.
See (S3) in file.
E. Rose (NAU) January 1981.

July 2004, Norfolk NMP.
The 19th-century tower mill described above is visible as a surviving structure on aerial photographs, centred at TG 2163 3923, but has not been mapped. 6m to its south-east a circular negative cropmark, visible on vertical aerial photographs from 1968 (S4), may mark the location of an earlier tower mill. This is likely to correspond with the mill depicted by Faden on his map of 1797 (S2). 35m to the north-west of the surviving tower the slight earthwork of a mound is visible on the same aerial photographs (S4). This is likely to be the remains of the base for a medieval or post-medieval post mill. The remains of a central pit for the post and an external ditch are visible as cropmarks. The mound and external ring ditch of a second post mill may be visible further to the north on aerial photographs from 1955 (S5), but the archaeological origin of this feature is less certain. It should be borne in mind that several round barrows have been identified on Roughton Heath, to the south-east of the site. It is possible, therefore, that the mounds and ring ditches described here are in fact the remains of Bronze Age barrows or even barrows which have been reused as post mill mounds.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 1 July 2004.

In 1978 there was a push by the North Norfolk 1st Rural Scout Group to obtain grant money to restore the mill.
NIAS records (S6)
W. Arnold HES 11/01/11