Survey Data
Reg No
30400101
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Mill (water)
Date
1800 - 1850
Coordinates
162282, 271922
Date Recorded
10/10/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding double-pile three-bay two-storey watermill, built c.1825, having lower two-storey block with attic slightly recessed at right angles to north end. Now derelict and partly ruinous. Pitched slate roof with concrete copings. Gable tops raised with smaller blocks of stone. Coursed rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with limestone lintels and sills and remains of one-over-one-pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to front of main block having double-leaf timber sheet door with limestone lintel. Some machinery retained to interior. Wheel pit at south end, with remains of timber water wheel. Mill race has coursed limestone walls, with mass concrete to hold sluices.
Appraisal
This relatively modest structure is a good and typical example of a rural water mill. The various blocks and additions show its changing fortunes and thus provides a barometer of local prosperity and industry. Its walls are evidence of local stone masonry and the retention of much of the historic fabric and the internal workings and associated water courses and other features make it a site of industrial heritage importance.