1821
Post mill offered for removal
A strong-built post windmill with roundhouse and flour machine was advertised for sale to be removed from the premises.
Site overview
Little Snoring post mill was a corn mill whose remains survive in a copse between Little Snoring and Great Snoring. The site is distinct from the nearby open-trestle post mill also associated with Little Snoring. In 1821 a strong-built post windmill with roundhouse and flour machine was offered for sale to be removed from the premises.
Later site observations recorded very limited remains rather than a standing mill. Four plinths or brick piers formed a square where the trestle had stood, with remains of timberwork including a rotting sail spar and iron sail clamp. A local account also recorded collapsed trestle and main-post remains with four red-brick piers capped by stone slabs.
The site is therefore best recorded as surviving structural remains of a post mill rather than a complete windmill.
Map
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History
Little Snoring post mill was a corn mill recorded on the road between Little Snoring and Great Snoring. In 1821 a strong-built post windmill with roundhouse and flour machine in complete repair was advertised for sale, to be removed from the premises. The later recorded remains show that the mill site retained physical evidence after the superstructure had gone.
By 1981 the collapsed trestle and main post were still visible, together with four red-brick piers about 30 inches high and capped with stone slabs. A later site visit found the remains in a copse, almost into Great Snoring, with four plinths forming a square on which the trestles had stood. The same observation also noted remains of a rotting sail spar with an iron sail clamp still attached.
WindmillWorld records the site as a post corn mill where little survives except the brick piers. The evidence does not establish a complete working chronology or final demolition date, but it confirms both the mill's corn-milling function and the survival of structural remains at the mapped site.
Timeline
1981
Collapsed remains visible
The collapsed trestle and main post were visible with four red-brick piers capped by stone slabs.
2007
Brick piers recorded in copse
Four plinths forming a square remained in a copse, with remains of a rotting sail spar and iron sail clamp.
Sources and records
Norfolk Mills page: Little Snoring post windmill
WindmillWorld entry: Little Snoring windmill
WindmillWorld news item: News from some Norfolk mills sites
Local history page: Great Snoring mill
WindmillWorld entry: Little Snoring windmill
WindmillWorld news item: News from some Norfolk mills sites
Local history page: Great Snoring mill