Survey Data
Reg No
22402014
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social, Technical
Original Use
Mill (water)
Date
1830 - 1850
Coordinates
180437, 180479
Date Recorded
14/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached two-bay three-storey overshot watermill, built c. 1840, at roadside and now disused. Half-hipped slate roof. Whitewashed rubble walls with dressed quoins and with metal tie plates between upper floors. Through stones protrude from south ends of front and rear walls. Square-headed window openings with timber frames and segmental brick-arch door opening with timber battened door, approached by steps. Metal mill wheel with timber paddles in wheel pit to east gable. Head race terminates in metal chute supported on rubble stone and concrete wall. Barrel-profile corrugated iron-roofed outbuilding attached to south wall. Single-storey stone-walled building to north with collapsed pitched slate roof. Tourist plaque to front wall of building.
Appraisal
The mill wheel still in situ is an impressive piece of machinery in good condition, while the building is an interesting example of functional industrial architecture. There is a notably high ratio of solid to void, with tiny window openings punched into thick walls. The half-hipped roof accentuates the vertical emphasis of the building.