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Scoop wheel drainage use
The windpump used an external iron-and-timber scoop wheel on the north side of the tower.
Site overview
Pettingell's Mill, also known as Seven Mile House, is a former drainage windpump on Haddiscoe Chedgrave Marshes. The listed-building record describes it as a nineteenth-century disused drainage windpump with a battered tarred-brick tower, circular in plan and three storeys high. First-floor openings retain wooden shutters, and the west side has a square-headed ground-floor doorway.
The cap and sails had been removed by the time of listing, replaced by a twentieth-century corrugated-iron roof. A large-diameter external scoop wheel of iron and timber survives on the north side of the tower. Later photographic records describe the mill as an ivy-clad former drainage mill seen from the River Waveney.
The available sources provide strong evidence for its surviving fabric and protection, but limited detail for its working chronology.
Map
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History
Pettingell's Mill stands on Haddiscoe Chedgrave Marshes and is also known as Seven Mile House. It was a drainage windpump, built in the nineteenth century to serve the marsh drainage system. The surviving structure is a battered tarred-brick tower, circular on plan and three storeys high.
The first-floor openings have wooden shutters, and the west side contains a square-headed ground-floor doorway. Its cap and sails had been removed by the time the listed-building description was compiled, and a twentieth-century roof of corrugated-iron sheeting had replaced the working cap. The mill retained a large-diameter external scoop wheel of iron and timber construction on the north side of the tower.
Historic England lists the building at Grade II. Later photographic records from 2008 describe Pettingell's Drainage Mill as an ivy-clad former drainage mill visible from the River Waveney. The consulted sources do not identify a precise construction date beyond the nineteenth century, nor do they give a final working date, but they document the survival of the tower, the loss of the cap and sails, and the retention of the external scoop wheel.
Timeline
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Grade II listed structure recorded
The disused drainage windpump was recorded as a Grade II listed building with surviving tower and scoop wheel.
1801–1900
Drainage windpump built
Pettingell's Mill was built in the nineteenth century as a drainage windpump on Haddiscoe Chedgrave Marshes.
1901–2000
Cap and sails removed
The cap and sails were removed and replaced by a twentieth-century corrugated-iron roof.
2008
Ivy-clad tower photographed
A 2008 photographic record described the former drainage mill as ivy-clad and visible from the River Waveney.
Sources and records
Historic England list entry: Pettingell's Mill (Seven Mile House)
Geograph photograph record: Pettingell's Drainage Mill
Wikimedia Commons file description: Pettingell's Drainage Mill
Windmill World entry: Pettingell's Mill, Haddiscoe
List of drainage windmills in Norfolk
Geograph photograph record: Pettingell's Drainage Mill
Wikimedia Commons file description: Pettingell's Drainage Mill
Windmill World entry: Pettingell's Mill, Haddiscoe
List of drainage windmills in Norfolk