NHER 6724 (Building record) - Blickling Watermill
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG13SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | BLICKLING, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
A mill on this site shown by (S1).
Disused since 1930 at latest on OS.
15 May 1980.
Good 3-arch brick bridge, and ruinous brick mill buildings, apparently those shown by (S1), standing over stream.
To west, 2 bay 2 storey miller's house still occupied.
E. Rose (NAU)
NIAS report that the mill had two upper stories since removed.
Although corn grinding stopped long ago, it was used to pump water to drinking troughs in the park until the 1950s.
Detailed report and drawings in (S2).
E. Rose (NAU)
September 2008.
Mill first built in 1779 and has a date stone with 'IS 1779' which refers to James Savory who built the mill. The present mill house is c.1830. The wheel survives. The building is of red brick and weatherboard under a corrugated iron roof
see (S3) for further information
H. White (NLA), 3 February 2009
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF8808 Fiche: Exists.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF6047 Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797.
- <S2> SNF2764 Article in Serial: Fisher, C. and Woolner, B. 1983. Blickling Water Mill. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 28 pp 14-19.
- <S3> SNF71419 Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 2008. Blickling Estate, An Archaeological and Historical Landscape Survey. NAU Archaeology. 1399.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)
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Record last edited
Jan 26 2011 10:12AM