Blackshore Windpump is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. Windmill.

Blackshore Windpump

WRENN ID: lesser-cellar-snow
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: East Suffolk
Country: England
Date first listed: 29 July 1976
Type: Windmill
Source: Historic England listing

Description

TM 47 NE REYDON

4/26 Blackshore Windpump - 29/7/76 - II

Drainage windmill, now disused. Circa 1890 by Robert Martin of Beccles. Slender red brick tower just over 8m. high, with original curb and cap frame; the cap roof, sails and fantail are missing. The machinery is of cast iron and is complete except for the plunger pump which was driven by a 3-throw crankshaft, a similar arrangement to the East Bridge mill, now at the Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket. An important landscape feature and one of only 2 remaining drainage mills on the Suffolk coastal marshes, the other being at Walberswick.

Listing NGR: TM4909075936

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