1830
Tower flour mill built
The tower mill at Burgh St Peter was built around 1830 for cereal milling.
Site overview
The coordinates identify Burgh St Peter Tower Mill rather than Somerleyton. The mill was a brick tower flour mill, recorded in nineteenth-century sale notices as a five-floor working mill driving three pairs of stones. It stood with a dwelling house, stables, gig house, cart shed, barn and cottages.
Historic England describes the tower mill as built around 1830 for cereal milling, ceasing work around 1933 and later being used as a store. Windmill gazetteer evidence records the site as Burgh St Peter tower mill, a corn mill, and later photographs show the old mill as a converted windmill. The sources establish development, operation and later survival, although the detailed machinery sequence is limited.
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History
Burgh St Peter Tower Mill was a brick tower flour mill at Burgh St Peter. Historic England describes it as built around 1830 for cereal milling. A sale notice in 1874 described it as a well-built freehold brick tower wind flour mill in substantial and good working order, with five floors and three pairs of stones.
The mill was offered with an adjoining dwelling house, garden, stables, gig house, cart shed, roomy barn and two adjoining cottages. The notice stated that George Hammond was retiring from the business. The mill later ceased working around 1933 and was subsequently used as a store.
Later photographic and gazetteer records identify the surviving site as Burgh St Peter Tower Mill, with photographs recording it as the Old Mill and as a converted windmill. The consulted evidence does not provide a complete ownership sequence after the nineteenth-century sale record.
Timeline
1874
Mill offered for sale
An 1874 sale notice described a five-floor brick tower wind flour mill driving three pairs of stones.
1933
Milling ceased
The mill ceased working around 1933.
2007–2010
Converted mill photographed
Later records show the old mill as a converted windmill at Burgh St Peter.
Sources and records
Norfolk Mills entry for Burgh St Peter tower windmill
Historic England archive record for Burgh St Peter tower mill
Windmill World entry for Burgh St Peter tower mill
Historic England archive record for Burgh St Peter tower mill
Windmill World entry for Burgh St Peter tower mill