Survey Data
Reg No
12316004
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Mill (water)
Date
1790 - 1810
Coordinates
252189, 143577
Date Recorded
05/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Flour mill complex, c.1800, including: (i) Detached three-bay five-storey rubble stone flour mill with single-bay six-storey end bay to left, single-bay five-storey return to west, and two-bay double-height projecting block to ground floor continuing into two-bay single-storey mono-pitched linking range having pair of elliptical-headed carriageways. Subsequently in use as corn mill, pre-1948. Disused, 1948. Now in ruins. Hipped slate roofs (now missing from main portion and partly collapsed to end bay; pitched roof to projecting block now gone; mono-pitched roof to connecting range) with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on squared rubble stone eaves. Irregular coursed squared rubble stone walls with dressed limestone quoins to corners, and remains of unpainted render to end bay. Square-headed window openings in camber-headed recesses with no sills, red brick dressings including voussoirs, and some remains of timber fittings. Pair of elliptical-headed carriageways to connecting range on cut-limestone pier with squared limestone voussoirs, and no fittings. Set back from road in own grounds with rubble grounds to site. (ii) Attached three-bay two-storey outbuilding, c.1800, to north-east with elliptical-headed carriageway to ground floor, and single-bay three-storey side elevations. Refenestrated, c.1975. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods on squared rubble limestone eaves. Random rubble stone walls with dressed limestone quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings in camber-headed recesses with no sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1975, having one replacement aluminium casement window, c.1975, to ground floor. Camber-headed door opening with red brick block-and-start surround, and replacement diagonal tongue-and-groove timber panelled door, c.1975. Elliptical-headed carriageway to ground floor with red brick voussoirs, and replacement diagonal tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors, c.1975.
Appraisal
A cluster of rubble stone buildings representing an important artefact of the industrial heritage of Stoneyford having historically supported much of the local agricultural economy from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. Exhibiting a foreboding quality on account of attributes identifying the architectural design value of the composition including the verticality of the massing, the regular pattern of the arrangement of small-scale openings, and so on the mill forms an imposing landmark in the locality. Having fallen into the early stages of ruination following a prolonged period out of use the complex survives as an appealing feature of some Romantic quality in a rural landscape that appears to be reclaiming the site.