Tuddenham Watermill

TL 77 SW 4/57

TUDDENHAM HIGH STREET Tuddenham Watermill

GV II

Watermill, now restaurant. Early C19, extended mid c19, converted and refurbished C20. Timber framed and weatherboarded, ground floor of brick and flint. Extended westwards C19 in 2 stages in gault brick, with weatherboarded gable, pantile roof. 2 and 3 storeys, with 1 vault to roadside elevation and single storey engine house and chimney to rear. North elevation: scattered fenestration C20 timber casements,some blocked openings; original build is 3 storeys, brick addition of mid C19, 2 storeys. South elevation: scattered fenestration C20 timber casements, same in altered openings. Engine house, gutted, former part of restaurant. Gault brick chimney, square on plan, tapering above brick band, further brick band to neck. Interior: Part of frame replaced; upper floor inserted. Machinery. Interior cast iron breast shot waterwheel, 14'8" diameter. Cast iron wheelshaft and pitwheel, the latter with wooden cogs, cast iron wallower, mounted at base of wooden upright shaft; at present the wheel is dropped out of mesh. Spurwheel of older wooden compass-arm construction, the spokes secured to upright shaft by passing through it. Millstones, driven by cast iron stone nuts, at present raised out of gear. Wooden crown wheel, also of compass arm construction. Iron layshaft for sack hoist. Adjusting arm repositioned against outer wall. Included for group value only.

Listing NGR: TL7331971767