Description

TL 97 SW SAPISTON

3/90 Watermill
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GV II

Disused watermill. C18. Red brick ground storey, timber-framed and
weatherboarded above, slate roof. Ventilating louvres in east gable, formerly
a lucam on the west gable. 3 floors. Main milling machinery, and much
auxilliary machinery, complete and in good condition. On the ground floor: an
internal undershop waterwheel, 16ft. in diameter, in cast iron, mounted on an
iron shaft. Control mechanisms for the 2 sluices are intact. Wooden clasp-arm
spurwheel meshing with 3 cast-iron stone nuts driving the millstones. On the
stone floor: 3 pairs of underdriven French burr stones, complete with their
furniture. Above the stones on the upright shaft a wooden clasp-arm crown-
wheel meshes with 3 iron gears, driving layshafts to power auxillary machinery.
Several carved inscriptions on the upright shaft, the earliest noted 1832. A
Boby grain cleaner, fed from bins above, and an elevator to return the cleaned
grain to the upper floor. On the bin floor: a 25ft long flour dresser, fed by
an Armfield shaker via an elevator. The sack hoist, bins and other partitions
survive in good order.

Listing NGR: TL9192474363

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26519843

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)