Herringfleet Marsh Mill is a Grade II* listed building in the The Broads Authority local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1954. A Industrial Mill. 1 related planning application.
Herringfleet Marsh Mill
- WRENN ID
- sharp-belfry-myrtle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- The Broads Authority
- Constituency
- Lowestoft MP: Jess Asato (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1954
- Type
- Mill
- Period
- Industrial
- Address
- Herringfleet Marsh Mill, Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet, East Suffolk
- OS grid reference
- TM 465 976
- Coordinates
- 52.52071, 1.6327
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Herringfleet Marsh Mill is a smock drainage mill windpump, built around 1820, likely by Barnes of Yarmouth, and is currently preserved in working order by Suffolk County Council. The mill features an octagonal timber-framed structure that is black weatherboarded and sits on a brick plinth, with two floors above the ground floor. It has a boat-shaped cap and is equipped with four common (cloth-spread) sails. The winding mechanism is operated by a braced tailpole with a geared hand winch.
Inside, the machinery includes a cast iron windshaft, an all-wood clasp-arm brakewheel, and a wallower, along with a wooden upright shaft. At the base of this upright shaft, a cast iron crown wheel drives an iron pit wheel fitted with wooden cogs. An external scoopwheel is present, with its shaft inscribed 'W.T. ENGLAND. MILLWRIGHT. YARMOUTH 1910.'
The ground floor contains a small fireplace, with the internal flue extending only to the first floor level. This mill is notable as the last full-size smock drainage mill in the Broads area.
Local climate
Herringfleet Marsh Mill receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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