NHER 3242 (Building record) - Bellevue Tower

Described by (S1) as Elizabethan, lower stories enclosed in 1721.
But cutting in (S7) NCM describes as a windmill, converted before 1829. [1] says the exterior is dated 1720, but it is said to be Elizabethan lookout or signal station - has view of sea to north, but is sheltered from the wind so not a windmill. In
1978 battlements, copying earlier ones, were replaced during conversion to house.
However (S4) states this was definitely a windmill, a smock mill erected by Sir Jacob Astley in 1721 (S2) it presumably worked on updraughts of air like Billingford. The octagonal brick base remains but the wooden tower was replaced by a cylindrical brick tower and furnished as a folly before 1781 (S3). In fact (S4) believes the mill was not sheltered from the wind at all, and was the highest in Norfolk.(S5) in file.
E. Rose (NAU) 6 April 1982.

March 1976. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description:
Tower, previously a look-out tower, a windmill then a folly. Brick, four storey lower stage perhaps 16th century in origin but with 18th century brick refacing as the base of a smock windmill built by Sir Jacob Astley first Bart in 1721 (datestone "I A 1721"). Mill replaced by the fourth Bart in 1781, upper floors added to make five domestic storeys: Norfolk Tour (1795) and Harry Apling in fast Anglian Magazine (May 1982). Lower stages octagonal, upper circular with battlemented parapet and stack. 20th century door and casement window, 20th century attic above parapet with hipped tiled roof. 20th century house added at ground floor.
Information from (S6).

NGR Corrected from original TG 1341 3349.
M. Horlock (NLA), 1 July 2003.