[95195] Little Cressingham : Wind & Water Mill – Pumphouse

The Pumphouse.
For increasing drinking water to the gardens of Clermont Corridor. Early C19.
Limewashed brick with some stone dressings. Slate roof.
Machinery intact with an iron breast shot waterwheel driving a 3-toss pump intended by Joseph Bramah.
Shown II* for the unusual Bramah pump.

Very little Cressingham mill was rebuilt in 1821 and in spite of its dual electrical power supply, this was only a modest mill. The watermill was a solitary storey brick developing with a slate roof that housed an iron breast-shot water wheel, 12 feet in diameter and 6 toes large. The windmill was a 6 storey 50ft tower mill that housed two pairs of wind powered stones in the higher storeys and yet another two pairs of stones in the decrease area driven by the h2o wheel.

Very little Cressingham mill was a uncommon blend of a wind and watermill doing work jointly. The only other Norfolk illustrations are Burnham Overy Union mills and Thurning mill.

One particular pair of sails was dropped in 1911 and then in 1916 intense tailwinding value the windmill its business lifetime, as it was damaged outside of restore. When the sails had been finally taken off in about 1920, one particular pair was reinstalled on Carbrooke towermill. The cap, stage and leading machinery have been eliminated in about 1940. Right after business milling ceased in 1952, the mill dam ongoing to offer drinking water for Clermont Hall, 50 % a mile absent, but dredging in the 1960s robbed the mill of enough water to turn the wheel.

Norfolk Historic Properties Have confidence in and the Norfolk Windmills Rely on took in excess of Minimal Cressingham Mill for a restoration job in 1981. As the equipment was essentially intact, their intention was to provide it again to doing work order as soon as much more and equipped to supply grinding demonstrations.

Rainwater experienced brought on significant destruction to the floors and woodwork, so in the early 1980s the Have confidence in fixed the floors, doors and windows. They also limewashed the inside. In 1988 the Bramah pumphouse was repaired.