Description

The following item shall be added:

TG 01 NE ELSING MILL STREET

3/41 Elsing Mill including Wheel House and wheel adjoining east

II

Water Mill, converted into a house. 1809, converted in late C20. Painted brick and weatherboarded timber frame on second floor. Pantile roof with shaped barge boards to gable ends. Brick gable end stacks. L-shaped on plan with wing at rear of right hand end (SW) wheel house at left (east) end and outshut on right (west) end. 3 storeys and attic. 4 window north front with C20 casement windows, those on ground floor and first floor are segmentally headed openings. Doorway at centre, another on first floor to right. Gabled hoist housing cantilevered out to right of centre above eaves. Single storey weatherboarded wheelhouse on left (east) end with painted brick gable end and pantile roof; at rear the wheelhouse has 2 windows with boarded shutters and plank door to left. At rear of main mill building the wing on right has gable end. INTERIOR: unchamfered cross-beams on hanging knee braces. Some timber framing exposed at rear end and on second floor. Tenoned (or butt) purlin roofs but over main range the purlins are missing. All machinery has been removed except for sluice gates and gearing in rear wing and in the wheel-house low-breast undershot treble wheel with cast iron naves, arms and rings and wooden shaft and floats survive intact.

Note: Built in 1809 as a paper mill on the site of an earlier mill. In 1834 or before it became a corn and seed crushing mill and was the Bylaugh estate mill before it was sold in 1917. Water power was replaced by electricity in circa 1930's and later stones were replaced by a hammer mill. Machinery was taken out when it was converted into a house in the late C20. Situated on River Wensum.

Listing NGR: TG0498717690

External Links

• Wikidata Q26344148

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)