Wind and Water Mill is a Grade II* listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1951. A C19 Mill.
Wind and Water Mill
- WRENN ID
- carved-courtyard-ochre
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 July 1951
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Wind and Water Mill, Fairstead Lane, Little Cressingham
- OS grid reference
- TF 869 002
- Coordinates
- 52.56762, 0.75745
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wind and Water Mill is a disused mill located in Little Cressingham, dating from around 1820. It is constructed of gault brick and features a flat concrete roof. Attached to the west side is a brick waterwheel house with a single pitch corrugated metal roof. The mill has a battered circular tower that rises six stories high, with a rebuilt timber gallery at the third floor level. Each floor, except for the ground, first, and third, has four rectangular windows set beneath segmental arches; the eastern openings on the lower floors are doorways.
Inside, the mill features a breast shot iron waterwheel that drives two pairs of stones at the first floor level, with one of the two pairs of wind-driven stones still intact at the fourth floor. The timber wind-driven spur wheel remains on a massive octagonal shaft, which is decorated with ogee chamfer stops. Additionally, bins and sack hoist machinery are still present. The mill was formerly part of the Clermont Estate.
Local climate
Wind and Water Mill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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