Little Cressingham Mill Little Cressingham · Norfolk · England

Little Cressingham Mill stands on Fairstead Lane beside Watton Brook. The supplied coordinates correspond to Little Cressingham rather than Watton. Norfolk Mills records that the site has earlier milling associations, with two mills listed in the parish in Domesday, and that the present combined wind and water mill was rebuilt in 1821.

The watermill was a single-storey brick building with a slate roof and an iron breast-shot waterwheel measuring 12 feet in diameter and 6 feet wide. The windmill was a six-storey tower, about 50 feet high, arranged so that two pairs of wind-powered stones worked in the upper storeys while two further pairs of stones in the lower part of the structure were driven by the waterwheel. The pale grey brick tower had four patent sails, each with eight bays of three shutters, a boat-shaped cap with petticoat, a gallery and a six-bladed fantail.

The third-floor meal floor carried a wooden reefing stage and the stop-chamfered lower section of the upright shaft. Machinery included a wooden clasp-arm spur wheel, peak and French burr stones, an oat crusher, a Tattershall Half-sack Midget Mill and a wheat cleaner. One pair of sails was lost in 1911, and severe tailwinding in 1916 ended the mill's commercial wind-powered life.

The sails were finally removed around 1920, with one pair later installed on Carbrooke towermill. The cap, stage and top machinery were removed around 1940. Historic England lists the building as the Wind and Water Mill, Grade II*, first listed on 9 July 1951, and describes the surviving battered circular tower, attached waterwheel house, rebuilt timber gallery, breast-shot iron waterwheel, surviving stones, timber wind-driven spur wheel, bins and sack-hoist machinery.

Norfolk County Council records that the mill used waterpower and an engine until 1952.