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[95197] Little Cressingham : Wind & Water Mill - Pumphouse
Wind & Water Mill, Fairstead Lane, Little Cressingham, Norfolk, 1821.
The Pumphouse.
Grade ll* listed.
The Pumphouse.
For raising water to the gardens of Clermont Hall. Early C19.
Limewashed brick with some stone dressings. Slate roof.
Machinery intact with an iron breast shot waterwheel driving a three-throw pump designed by Joseph Bramah.
Listed II* for the rare Bramah pump.
Little Cressingham mill was rebuilt in 1821 and despite its dual power source, this was only a small mill. The watermill was a single storey brick building with a slate roof that housed an iron breast-shot water wheel, 12 feet in diameter and 6 feet wide. The windmill was a six storey 50ft tower mill that housed two pairs of wind powered stones in the upper storeys and another two pairs of stones in the lower section driven by the water wheel.
Little Cressingham mill was a rare combination of a wind and watermill working together. The only other Norfolk examples are Burnham Overy Union mills and Thurning mill.
One pair of sails was lost in 1911 and then in 1916 severe tailwinding cost the windmill its commercial life, as it was damaged beyond repair. When the sails were finally removed in about 1920, one pair was reinstalled on Carbrooke towermill. The cap, stage and top machinery were removed in about 1940. After commercial milling ceased in 1952, the mill dam continued to supply water for Clermont Hall, half a mile away, but dredging in the 1960s robbed the mill of sufficient water to turn the wheel.
Norfolk Historic Buildings Trust and the Norfolk Windmills Trust took over Little Cressingham Mill for a restoration project in 1981. As the machinery was basically intact, their aim was to bring it back to working order once more and able to provide grinding demonstrations.
Rainwater had caused considerable damage to the floors and woodwork, so in the early 1980s the Trust repaired the floors, doors and windows. They also limewashed the interior. In 1988 the Bramah pumphouse was repaired.
[95197] Little Cressingham : Wind & Water Mill - Pumphouse
Wind & Water Mill, Fairstead Lane, Little Cressingham, Norfolk, 1821.
The Pumphouse.
Grade ll* listed.
The Pumphouse.
For raising water to the gardens of Clermont Hall. Early C19.
Limewashed brick with some stone dressings. Slate roof.
Machinery intact with an iron breast shot waterwheel driving a three-throw pump designed by Joseph Bramah.
Listed II* for the rare Bramah pump.
Little Cressingham mill was rebuilt in 1821 and despite its dual power source, this was only a small mill. The watermill was a single storey brick building with a slate roof that housed an iron breast-shot water wheel, 12 feet in diameter and 6 feet wide. The windmill was a six storey 50ft tower mill that housed two pairs of wind powered stones in the upper storeys and another two pairs of stones in the lower section driven by the water wheel.
Little Cressingham mill was a rare combination of a wind and watermill working together. The only other Norfolk examples are Burnham Overy Union mills and Thurning mill.
One pair of sails was lost in 1911 and then in 1916 severe tailwinding cost the windmill its commercial life, as it was damaged beyond repair. When the sails were finally removed in about 1920, one pair was reinstalled on Carbrooke towermill. The cap, stage and top machinery were removed in about 1940. After commercial milling ceased in 1952, the mill dam continued to supply water for Clermont Hall, half a mile away, but dredging in the 1960s robbed the mill of sufficient water to turn the wheel.
Norfolk Historic Buildings Trust and the Norfolk Windmills Trust took over Little Cressingham Mill for a restoration project in 1981. As the machinery was basically intact, their aim was to bring it back to working order once more and able to provide grinding demonstrations.
Rainwater had caused considerable damage to the floors and woodwork, so in the early 1980s the Trust repaired the floors, doors and windows. They also limewashed the interior. In 1988 the Bramah pumphouse was repaired.