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Cambridgeshire Watermills and Windmills at Risk Simon Hudson Cambridgeshire Watermills and Windmills at Risk Simon Hudson Discovering Mills East of England Building Preservation Trust A project sponsored by 1 1. Introductory essay: A History of Mill Conservation in Cambridgeshire. page 4 2. Aims and Objectives of the study. page 8 3. Register of Cambridgeshire Watermills and Windmills page 10 Grade I mills shown viz. Bourn Mill, Bourn Grade II* mills shown viz. Six Mile Bottom Windmill, Burrough Green Grade II mills shown viz. Newnham Mill, Cambridge Mills currently unlisted shown viz. Coates Windmill 4. Surveys of individual mills: page 85 Bottisham Water Mill at Bottisham Park, Bottisham. Six Mile Bottom Windmill, Burrough Green. Stevens Windmill Burwell. Great Mill Haddenham. Downfield Windmill Soham. Northfield or Shade Windmill Soham. The Mill, Elton. Post Mill, Great Gransden. Sacrewell Mill and Mill House and Stables, Wansford. Barnack Windmill. Hooks Mill and Engine House Guilden Morden. Hinxton Watermill and Millers' Cottage, Hinxton. Bourn Windmill. Little Chishill Mill, Great and Little Chishill. Cattell’s Windmill Willingham. 5. Glossary of terms page 262 2 6. Analysis of the study. page 264 7. Costs. page 268 8. Sources of Information and acknowledgments page 269 9. Index of Cambridgeshire Watermills and Windmills by planning authority page 271 10. Brief C.V. of the report’s author. page 275 3 1. Introductory essay: A History of Mill Conservation in Cambridgeshire. Within the records held by Cambridgeshire County Council’s Shire Hall Archive is what at first glance looks like some large Victorian sales ledgers. These are in fact the day books belonging to Hunts the Millwrights who practised their craft for more than 200 years in Soham near Ely. The pages tell in minute detail the works carried out on many of the counties mills from 1830- 1933. This work ranged from the replacement of sack trap hinges to the total rebuilding of mills. For those involved today in mill conservation they provide a glimpse into a mill’s past for instance at Wicken work on the Village Corn Windmill is described as transcribed below: Date Work For Nov 1838 Various overhaul works to cogs, millstones, spindle and nuts, stone irons, 108 Mr How new spur wheel cogs, new step brass for upright shaft and stone brasses. A new chain for lever, work on spur wheel and spouts, fly tackle. New brushes, each 4 ½ feet long 2 sheets of wire No. 64 1 sheet of wire No. 60 1 sheet of wire No. 70 ½ sheet of wire No. 30 Dec 4 1838 A cast iron worm weight 25lbs Mr How 1839 86 Coggs for brake wheel, cast iron nut with 17 cogs Mr How 1842 A stone spindle Mr How 1844 Sundry cogs including beech to stone nut Mr How 1846 10 feet of striking rod Mr How Repairs to iron plates on curb 1847 107 cogs to spur wheel Mr How 1848 New neck brass weight 28½lbs Mr How An oak neck block 3 feet long A new back 41 feet long 13” side 1849 An oak clamp 9feet long 7” x 7” Mr How 1890 Mill bills purchased Mr Bailey 1892 Mill bills purchased Mr Barton 1899 Various items including a steel plate chimney, and ‘Bevil wheel’ geared with Mr W. Barton 65 beech cogs New neck brass 28½ lbs New upright shaft brass Stone nut geared with 18 beech cogs 1902 Stone nut geared with 20 beech wood cogs Mr W. Barton 1904 Sold to Mr Barton pair 4 ½ feet French Stones £7/10/- Mr Barton A new top fitted to stone spindle 1905 A new shaft with a pair of 21” x 6¼“ face pulleys (probably for drive from Mr Barton portable steam engine) Records such as these have enabled an accurate repair programme to be carried out on the mill which was temporarily conserved with the installation of a temporary roof in 1973 by Chris Wilson the owner of Over Windmill, leading eventually to the present owners: the Wicken Windmill Partnership buying the 4 mil in 1987 and restoring it to its present full working order. Members of this volunteer millwrighting and milling partnership have also been involved in other repair programmes e.g. at Shade and Downfield Mills at Soham and more recently in partnership with others in writing repair and maintenance proposals for Great Chishill and Great Gransden. Wicken Windmill 1895 © Dave Pearce 1970 © Arthur Smith 2012 © Simon Hudson There have been many key individuals in involved in mill conservation in the county including Sir Alfred Bossom and Mr Mansfield Forbes who bought Bourn Windmill in 1931for £45 before donating it to the Cambridge Preservation Society (now Cambridge Past Present and Future). The following year, Lord Fairhaven of Anglesey Abbey paid for the last small drainage pump that once stood on Adventurers Fen at Burwell to be repaired and moved to Wicken Fen. Wicken Fen Drainage Mill 1936 as it stood on Adventurers Fen Burwell © Mills Archive Trust 2013 © Simon Hudson This work was carried out by a Mr C.J. Ison a wheelwright from Histon who was also responsible for the removal of the Windmill at Ellington and its rebuilding next to the American Air Force Cemetery at Madingley. 5 In recent times various mill owners such as the late Michael Bullied at Swaffham Prior have carried out repairs on mills often returning what were often derelict to a working mills. Swaffham Prior 1970 © T.C. Vickers 1991 © Mills Archive Trust Public bodies such as the National Trust have also played an important role in the conservation of two of the most complete watermills within the county at Houghton nr St Ives and Lode Mill at Anglesey Abbey. Houghton 1899 Frith (Bryan) 2012 © Martin Watts Cambridgeshire County Council currently own two of the county’s most important and interesting windmills at Great Chishill and Great Gransden, the former being the last windmill to work commercially in Cambridgeshire and the latter being one of the oldest windmills in the country. However in 2010 the County Council declared these mills to be ‘surplus to the council’s requirements’. Following this announcement approaches were made to both the relevant District and Parish Councils neither of which were prepared to take on this responsibility. 6 Great Chishill Windmill 1951 © Martin Bodman 2012 © Simon Hudson Fortunately both mills are within village communities that care sufficiently about their village’s milling heritage that there are groups that have been formed with a view to taking on responsibility for these mills. Details about the Repair and Maintenance proposals that have been written for each of these mills can be found in the pages of this report. Two of the mills currently on the Heritage at Risk Register (Downfield Windmill Soham and Steven’s Windmill Burwell) now have conservation plans and funding in place for the much needed repairs to be carried out. This welcome news needs to be seen in the context that there are several mills in the county that are risk and I hope that the pages of this report will highlight these cases and encourage communities to support their local mill. Hooks Mill and Engine House Guilden Morden 2009 © Leesa Barrow Great Mill Haddenham © Nick Baker 7 2. Aims and Objectives of the study. The aim of this study is to provide accurate and up to date information on each of the standing watermill and windmill sites within the county of Cambridgeshire1 This register will give details of the site name, designations, address, ownership, and condition and will also include a current image of the mil as well as an archive image if possible of the mill in its last working appearance. Any relevant comments will also be added to these entries on such matters as designations. An initial assessment will be carried out on those mills which would be classified as being at Risk as being at risk from the criteria set out by English Heritage as below. Criteria for inclusion on the Heritage at Risk Register Buildings (not in use as a public place of worship) considered for inclusion on the Register must be listed grade I or II*, (or grade II in London) or be a structural scheduled monument. Buildings are assessed for inclusion on the basis of condition and, where applicable, occupancy (or use).The condition of buildings on the Register ranges from ‘very bad’ to ‘poor’, ‘fair’ and (occasionally) ‘good’. The Register also includes buildings that are vulnerable to becoming at risk because they are empty, under-used or face redundancy without a new use to secure their future. Occupancy (or use) is noted as ‘vacant’, ‘part occupied’, ‘occupied’, or occasionally, ‘unknown’; for many structural monuments, occupancy is not applicable. Assessing vulnerability in the case of a building in fair condition necessarily involves judgement and discretion. A few buildings on the Register are in good condition, having been repaired or mothballed, but a new use or owner is still to be secured. Buildings are removed from the Register when they are fully repaired/consolidated, their future secured, and where appropriate, occupied or in use2 NB it is noted that buildings listed Grade II were also included in the register in 2012 These reports will include details of the mill’s list description, condition and vulnerability. Details of relevant contacts e.g. Conservation Officers will also be included on these forms. A more detailed survey will then be carried out which will give further information including details of previous reports, site visits, archaeological potential, site significance and recommended action. 1 For these purposes Cambridgeshire includes the areas controlled by Cambridge and Peterborough City Councils. 2 From http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/content/imported-docs/f-j/har-criteria-for-inclusion.pdf 8 The objectives of the study are twofold: 1.
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