Frettenham Mill is a

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Frettenham Frettenham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is located west of Wroxham, and north of Norwich. History Frettenham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for Fraeta's homestead or villa ...

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which has been converted to residential accommodation.

History

Frettenham Mill was built c1880 for Joshua Harper. He died in 1891 and the mill was offered for sale by

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at the Royal Hotel,

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...

on 18 July 1891. It was bought by Alfred Herne, who worked it until c.1900. The mill had lost its sails and fantail by c.1910. The mill was derelict by 1937, but at that time retained the cap frame. By 2004, the mill and associated outbuildings had been converted to residential accommodation. A new boat shaped cap was fitted to the mill tower. Graham Cottrell and wife Suzanne Cottrell owned the mill between 2011 and 2016, during that time the fourth mill stone (two still in place, one incorporated into the village sign) was returned to the site and mounted as a water feature in the garden, additionally a modern single door on the first floor was replaced with a pair of doors matching the oldest photos of the mill that are available.

Description

Frettenham Mill is a five storey tower mill which had a stage at second floor level. The cap was winded by a ''fantail''. The mill had four sails. The tower is to the curb. Much of the machinery survives in the converted mill, including the wooden ''upright shaft'', wooden clasp-arm ''great spur wheel'', cast iron ''crown wheel'' with wooden teeth and two pairs of ''underdrift'' French Burr

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s. One of the millstones was incorporated into the village sign.

Millers

*Joshua Harper c.1880-91 *Alfred Edward Sutton Herne 1891-c.1900 Reference for above:-

References

External links

Windmill World
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