Survey Data
Reg No
40306010
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social, Technical
Previous Name
Bennett's Mill
Original Use
Mill (water)
Date
1840 - 1880
Coordinates
238752, 297904
Date Recorded
07/08/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay three-storey corn mill, built c.1860, having projecting gable-fronted bay to front elevation. Now disused. Hipped replacement thatch roof. Rubble stone walls having squared quoins. Stone lintels and red brick dressing to window openings having stone sills. Segmental-arched red brick opening to ground floor of west gable. Replacement timber windows and sheeted timber doors. On sloping site with embankment to rear. Freestanding cast-iron mill wheel to east.
Appraisal
This former corn mill is a reminder of industrial legacy of Ballinagh and the surrounding area, and of the local agricultural economy it served in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It appears to be built on the site of an earlier mill complex that is shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1835. Architecturally it typifies the robust and unornamented stone finish and simple plan form characteristic of mill buildings. The variously sized openings and their locations reflect the operating process of milling. The surviving mill wheel is of particular interest and provides insight into the technical aspects of milling using water power.