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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1954
- Type
- Mill
- Period
- Industrial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/08/2018
TM 49 NE 1/14
HERRINGFLEET Herringfleet Marsh Mill
27.11.54
II* Smock drainage mill windpump, preserved in working order by Suffolk County Council. Circa 1820, probably by Barnes of Yarmouth.
Octagonal timber framed and black weatherboarded tower on a brick plinth, with two floors above the ground floor. Boat-shaped cap. There are four common (cloth-spread) sails and winding is by a braced tailpole with a geared hand winch. The internal machinery comprises cast iron windshaft, all-wood clasp-arm brakewheel and wallower, wooden upright shaft; at the base of the upright shaft a cast iron crown wheel drives an iron pit wheel with wooden cogs. External scoopwheel, the shaft driving it inscribed 'W.T. ENGLAND. MILLWRIGHT. YARMOUTH 1910.'
There is a small ground floor fireplace, the internal flue extending only to first floor level. This is the last full-size smock drainage mill in the Broads area.
Listing NGR: TM4994898801
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