1864
Tower mill advertised for auction
The brick tower windmill, dwelling house, granary, stable, sheds and freehold land were advertised for auction.
Site overview
Roughton Chapel Road towermill was a brick tower windmill in Roughton near Cromer. It stood with a dwelling house, granary, stable, sheds and freehold land. Norfolk Mills records an 1864 auction notice for the property, then occupied by R. Wall.
The notice described a brick-built tower windmill with associated domestic and trade buildings and a small pightle of land. The consulted sources provide only limited detail for this site: no construction date, machinery arrangement, full ownership sequence, final working date or surviving structural condition was identified. The record is therefore restricted to the evidenced identification of the Chapel Road brick tower mill and its associated nineteenth-century milling premises.
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History
Roughton Chapel Road towermill was a brick-built tower windmill at Roughton, near Cromer. Norfolk Mills records the site through an auction notice published in July 1864. The notice described the property as a brick-built tower windmill with dwelling house, granary, stable, sheds and a pightle of freehold land, situated in the parish of Roughton and then occupied by R. Wall. The area of the site, including the buildings, was given as one acre, two roods and twenty-seven perches.
The consulted record does not give a construction date or a detailed description of the working machinery. No sail type, cap form, number of stones, auxiliary power, miller chronology beyond the 1864 occupier, or final date of operation was identified. The mill is nevertheless securely recorded as a tower windmill with associated granary and domestic buildings.
Because no later survival account was identified in the consulted sources, the present record is limited to the historical tower-mill site rather than a detailed account of a surviving or converted structure. Its strongest evidenced character is as a mid-nineteenth-century Roughton corn-milling property with a brick tower windmill and associated buildings.
Timeline
1864
R. Wall recorded as occupier
The 1864 auction notice recorded the property in the occupation of R. Wall.
Sources and records
Norfolk Mills: Roughton Chapel Road tower windmill
Norfolk Chronicle auction notice transcribed by Norfolk Mills
Norfolk Chronicle auction notice transcribed by Norfolk Mills