Wind and Water Mill
WIND AND WATER MILL, FAIRSTEAD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1152133
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Wind and Water Mill
- Statutory Address:
- WIND AND WATER MILL, FAIRSTEAD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1152133
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wind and Water Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- WIND AND WATER MILL, FAIRSTEAD LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WIND AND WATER MILL, FAIRSTEAD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Cressingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 86979 00213
Details
LITTLE CRESSINGHAM FAIRSTEAD LANE TF 80 SE (north side) 10/30 Wind and Water Mill 9:7:51 (formerly listed as Little Cressingham Mill)
GV II*
Disused wind and water mill. Circa 1820. Gault brick with flat concrete roof. Brick waterwheel house with single pitch corrugated metal roof. Battered circular tower with waterwheel house attached to west side. 6 storey tower with a rebuilt timber gallery at third floor level. 4 rectangular windows beneath segmental arches to each floor except at ground, first and third floors where the eastern openings are doorways. Breast shot iron waterwheel driving 2 pairs of stones at first floor level, one of 2 pairs of wind driven stones survives at fourth floor level. The timber wind driven spur wheel survives at the third floor on a massive octagonal shaft decorated with ogee chamfer stops. Bins and sack hoist machinery survive. Formerly on Clermont Estate.
Listing NGR: TF8697900213
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 221027
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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