NHER 6802 (Monument record) - Site of post medieval windmill

March 1978. Visit.
Windmill (Ordnance Survey). Post mill.
Totally destroyed (apparently in a gale many years ago). Site seems to be under bungalows.
E. Rose (NAU), 14 March 1978.

Marked on Faden's map 1797.
E. Rose (NAU).

See also NHER 35580 for aerial photograph evidence of a windmill in this area. Is NHER 6802 misplaced?
D Gurney (NLA), 10 October 2000.

No, NHER 6802 is not misplaced, this is the location shown on the 1953 six inch Ordnance Survey map, as stated above. It is however in the garden of number 26 Coast Road, not under the bungalows which are to the west. The windmill shown on Faden's map could be on either NHER 6802 or 35580, as this map is not accurate to that degree.

The site has been extended and therefore the centre of site has been altered from TG 2542 4020 to TG 2544 4020.

March 2004. Norfolk NMP.
The site of the post-medieval windmill is visible on aerial photographs (S1-3). The NHER boundary was extended to include a rectangular building to the immediate east, which was presumably associated with the windmill and a rectangular enclosed area located on a slight terrace to the north of the knoll. A hollowed and sunken track also leads to the site from the road. As stated above the mill structure no longer visibly survives above ground. The site is centred on TG 2544 4020. This site gets incorporated into World War Two training activities (S1), see NHER 38512 for details and brief discussion of the possibility that the windmill gets converted into a pillbox, although there is no definite evidence for this happening.

The windmill, which appears to be hexagonal in shape and 6.5m across, is centred on TG 2542 4020. The rectangular structure, 10m by 5m, is located at TG 2542 4018. Both structures are visible in 1953 (S3), however by 1955 (S4) the site has been re-landscaped and developed into a house plot. The rectangular structure has definitely been removed during this work. In the 1955 aerial photographs it is hard to distinguish the actual mill structure remaining, although a partially buried feature in the correct location for the mill, may indicate that the base at least survives. In 1963 also, it is hard to distinguish the structure surviving much past ground level (S5). However after 1967 a low, but above ground, hexagonal structure is clearly visible (S6-7). This would indicate that further landscaping had been done around the mill base, exposing the structure again. The aerial photograph evidence indicates that it was destroyed some time after 1988 and by 2002 (S7-8), potentially by the storm event mentioned above.

Up until the re-landscaping of 1953-5 an earthwork hollow way can be seen running up towards the windmill from the road from TG 2546 4023 to TG 2542 4019. This is up to 5m wide. To the west of this is what appears a rectangular enclosed area defined by low banks and set into a slight terrace on the slope, 30m by 15m. This feature is marked on the Ordnance Survey First edition map (6", 1879-1886) (S9) and presumably relates to the workings and possibly related structures of the former corn mill site.
(S1-9)
S. Massey (NMP) 18 March 2004