NHER 15506 (Monument record) - Site of post medieval windmill and mill houses

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Summary

This is the site of a windmill, which was built before 1857 and collapsed in 1911. A section of the original mill house survived as part of Station Garage house until the late 1970s. This was a clay lump building with a brick façade and was due to be demolished in 1979. A second mill house was built in 1860 and was demolished in the late 1970s.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TM09SE
Civil Parish ATTLEBOROUGH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

March and November 1979. Norfolk Archaeological Research Group survey.
Site of 'mill', presumably a windmill, dating from pre 1860.
Present house clay lump with brick skin. Rear portion is original mill house. Front portion of building added soon after 1860; the premises became the Railway Tavern (unless the miller has also kept a tavern before his new house was built). Other additions of 1929 when converted to a garage - became Station Garage. To be demolished.
Present house was replaced as the mill house in 1860 when a new mill house was built nearby (recently demolished).
See report (S1) and photographs (S2) in file.

Mill was 'Station Mill', of clay lump faced in brick, tower mill, built pre 1857; collapsed January 1911 -according to informant.
E. Rose (NAU) 29 January 1982.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Unpublished Document: Partridge, E.G.. 1979. Station Garage (Old Railway Tavern), Attleborough.
  • <S2> Photograph: Partridge, E.G.. 1979. Station Garage, Attleborough (780-0, 780-2, 780-40 to 780-42c).

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Record last edited

Sep 24 2014 4:29PM

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