Cornmill

The following building shall be added:

FRETTENHAM TG 21 NW MILL LANE 2/25 Frettenham Cornmill

II

Former cornmill. Mid C19, probably c1880. Tapering tarred brick tower. Circular plan. 5 storeys. Ground floor stable door to south-east has one horizontal pivot window with glazing bars; remains of double door on first floor with one horizontal pivot window with glazing bars; one gallery door opening on second- floor and one horizontal pivot window with glazing bars; remains of cast-iron gallery bearers and vertical rails; one window opening on third-floor and one horizontal pivot window on fourth floor; complete curb and cast-iron track and rack. Interior has virtually complete set of machinery: First floor has wooden clasp arm, great spur wheel with wooden teeth and cast-iron crown wheel with wooden teeth, drive shaft to auxiliary machinery formerly placed in adjoining barn (not included) and two underdriven stone nuts; second floor has two French burr stones and one runner stone stored on floor, and wooden chute to first - floor; wooden chamfered drive shaft on second and third floors; fourth floor section of drive shaft remains.

(H Apling, Norfolk Corn Windmills, 1984, pp 226-7)

Listing NGR: TG2460717772