NHER 8067 (Monument record) - Site of Horstead Mill

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Summary

A late 18th century watermill, which may have been built on the site of a 16th century mill. The mill burnt down in 1963.

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Location

Map sheet	TG21NE
Civil Parish	COLTISHALL, BROADLAND, NORFOLK
Civil Parish	HORSTEAD WITH STANNINGHALL, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

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Horstead Watermill.
Built 1790, burnt down 1963, see [1].
This stands on the site of an Elizabethan or earlier mill, see map reproduced in (S1); copied in (S2).
E. Rose (NAU) 22 March 1982.

The Lock Cut was made in 1775, so is the date of 1790 correct? Or Is this a rebuilding?
(S3) described this as weatherboarded, ground floor on arches, six small gables, across road from millers house.
Now a picturesque overgrown ruin after fire, two or more ranges of parallel brick arches standing above the sluices; modern weir inserted.
Visited E. Rose (NAU), 26 May 1983.

Turbine from mill now in grounds of Gressenhall Rural Life Museum.
E. Rose (NAU), 23 June 1988.

Associated Sources (20)

--- SNF49212 Drawing: Various. Various. Architectural plans.
--- SNF58263 Monograph: Pevsner, N. and Wilson, B. 1997. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 569.
--- SNF57534 Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1960. Mill to lose link with past. 11 March.
--- SNF57531 Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1963. [Article and letter to the editor about the fire at Horstead Mill].
--- SNF94832 Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1963. [Photograph of Horstead Mill after the fire]. 24 January.
--- SNF57538 Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1973. Mill ruins may soon go. 11 May.
--- SNF1107 Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1983-1984. [Articles on the planning decision for the site of Horstead Mill].
--- SNF57539 Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1991. Mill water 'danger to children' claim. 20 August.
--- SNF57527 Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1992. [Photograph of Horstead Mill]. 24 September.
--- SNF57526 Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1993. [Photograph of Horstead Mill before the fire of 1963]. 27 January.
--- SNF57529 Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1997. Beauty spot idea for burned-down mill. 1 February.
--- SNF89875 Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1997. Fine mill before fire struck. 5 February.
--- SNF57530 Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1999. Clearing up fire damage - after nearly 40 years. 13 December.
--- SNF51189 Newspaper Article: Evening News. 1997. It was them! Historic hall and watermill scoop windfalls. 1 October.
--- SNF9651 Photograph: EGL 36.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF5395 Article in Serial: Corbett, W.J.. 1897. Elizabethan Village Surveys.. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society New Series. Vol XI.
<S2> SNF2677 Article in Serial: Campbell, B. M. S. 1981. The Extent and Layout of Commonfields in Eastern Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXVIII Pt I pp 5-32. p 9.
<S3> SNF94092 Monograph: Pevsner, N. 1962. North-East Norfolk and Norwich. The Buildings of England. 1st Edition. p 173; Pl 2b.

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Record last edited

Jan 20 2017 10:01AM