Cornmill is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1990. Cornmill.

Cornmill

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Broadland
Constituency
Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 June 1990
Type
Cornmill
Address
Cornmill, Mill Lane, Frettenham
OS grid reference
TG 246 177
Coordinates
52.711, 1.32365
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Frettenham Cornmill is a former cornmill built in the mid-19th century, likely around 1880. It features a tapering tarred brick tower with a circular plan and stands five storeys tall. The ground floor has a stable door on the south-east side, along with one horizontal pivot window that includes glazing bars. There are remains of a double door on the first floor, which also has one horizontal pivot window with glazing bars. The second floor contains one gallery door opening and another horizontal pivot window with glazing bars, along with remains of cast-iron gallery bearers and vertical rails. The third floor has one window opening, and the fourth floor includes another horizontal pivot window. The structure retains a complete curb and cast-iron track and rack.

Inside, the mill has a nearly complete set of machinery. The first floor features a wooden clasp arm, a great spur wheel with wooden teeth, and a cast-iron crown wheel with wooden teeth, along with a drive shaft leading to auxiliary machinery that was formerly in an adjoining barn (which is not included in the listing). There are two underdriven stone nuts on this floor. The second floor contains two French burr stones and one runner stone stored on the floor, as well as a wooden chute leading to the first floor. A wooden chamfered drive shaft runs through the second and third floors, and a section of the drive shaft remains on the fourth floor.

Local climate

Cornmill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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