Description

TM 07 NW THELNETHAM MILL ROAD

2/85 Windmill

II*

Tower windmill. 1819 with later modernisation (windshaft dated
'J.AICKMAN.LYNN. 1832'); restoration to working order commenced 1980. Tarred
brick tower with ground floor and 3 upper floors; small segmental-headed
casement windows, boarded half-door; conical vertically-boarded cap; no sails
or fantail at time of survey. Machinery intact: wooden clasp-arm brakewheel
with iron teeth, iron windshaft, iron wallower, wooden upright shaft in two
sections, wooden clasp-arm spurwheel with iron teeth, iron stone nuts with
wooden cogs: 2 pairs of underdriven millstones on the first floor and a third
pair on the ground floor driven by engine via an external pulleywheel ; wooden
crownwheel driving sack hoist. The diary of Thomas King, a local carpenter,
records that the mill was begun in 1819 and 'set to work on Christmas Day
Dec.25 1819'.

Listing NGR: TM0110078967

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Thelnetham Windmill at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7781097

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Recommended Books

• 
  For the Record
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair