[95197] Little Cressingham : Wind & Water Mill – Pumphouse

The Pumphouse.
For increasing h2o 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 3-throw pump made by Joseph Bramah.
Detailed II* for the rare Bramah pump.

Very little Cressingham mill was rebuilt in 1821 and despite its dual electricity supply, this was only a tiny mill. The watermill was a solitary storey brick constructing with a slate roof that housed an iron breast-shot drinking water wheel, 12 toes in diameter and 6 ft wide. The windmill was a 6 storey 50ft tower mill that housed two pairs of wind run stones in the higher storeys and a different two pairs of stones in the decreased part driven by the h2o wheel.

Tiny Cressingham mill was a uncommon combination of a wind and watermill doing work together. The only other Norfolk illustrations are Burnham Overy Union mills and Thurning mill.

1 pair of sails was dropped in 1911 and then in 1916 serious tailwinding price the windmill its business lifestyle, as it was broken past restore. When the sails were being eventually removed in about 1920, one particular pair was reinstalled on Carbrooke towermill. The cap, stage and top machinery were being taken out in about 1940. Following commercial milling ceased in 1952, the mill dam ongoing to source h2o for Clermont Corridor, fifty percent a mile away, but dredging in the 1960s robbed the mill of enough drinking water to switch the wheel.

Norfolk Historic Properties Belief and the Norfolk Windmills Have confidence in took above Minor Cressingham Mill for a restoration task in 1981. As the equipment was basically intact, their purpose was to carry it again to doing work buy as soon as extra and capable to give grinding demonstrations.

Rainwater had induced appreciable hurt to the flooring and woodwork, so in the early 1980s the Rely on repaired the floors, doors and home windows. They also limewashed the interior. In 1988 the Bramah pumphouse was fixed.