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Staithe Road, BUNGAY, NR35 1EU

Grade II listed, late 16th or early 17th century former Inn which is little changed since becoming a private dwelling house.

There has been a mill house on this site for nearly four centuries, although the present Mill House was built in 1902. http://www.norfolkmills.co.uk/Watermills/bungay.html

Formerly known as Bardolph's Mill, a succession of mills have been built on this site; this building is of Victorian origin. Bungay is the head of navigation for the River Waveney. When the previous mill was working as a paper mill, it burnt down and the site was then bought by later miller Charles Marston's father, who rebuilt it in the 1870s. He fitted a roller plant in the 1890s, before the mill again caught fire and burned down again about 1900. The Marstons then took over Earsham mill for flour production and rebuilt Bungay mill as a provender mill in 1902. The new mill was constructed of weatherboard and brick with a corrugated iron roof. It is unusual because of the extended lucum which extended over the dock for loading the barges. In the 1960s the watercourse adjacent to the mill building was filled in and grassed over and converted into a timber store. In 2003 it became a consultancy and training centre and has since been converted into residential accommodation.

The plaque can be seen near the door under the lucum. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6822976

Situated close to the River Waveney the former Bungay Maltings has been tastefully converted into a number of apartments while the exterior has retained much of its original appearance.

What would have been the Mill Pool for the old Bungay Water Mill, near Bungay Staithe on the River Waveney.

Bungay Sluice and new bridge over the Waveney in Falcon Meadow

Falcon Meadowns are on the right, taken from by the sluice, standing on the footbridge.

Looking up Staithe Road, the Almshouses are in the middle of the photograph, with Holy Trinity Church behind them. Taken from immediately outside the square in Image, (the red house is on the grid line).

The plaque in the facing gable informs the reader that these are "Homes for the widows of Poor Tradesmen belonging to Bungay. Endowed by Eliza Dreyer 1848". Eliza Dreyer was the daughter of novelist Eliza Bonhote. She was curate of St. Mary’s church, inherited her mother’s wealth plus various properties, and decided to use it to establish homes for five poor widows of tradesmen living in the town. She lived in Staithe Road, and donated a piece of her land on which the almshouses were built in 1848. They stand in a neat row, quaint, single-storey, with Tudor style chimneys, mullioned windows, and flint facings, frequently attracting the attention of tourists.