Survey Data
Reg No
15701911
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Mill (water)
Date
1865 - 1870
Coordinates
288176, 141067
Date Recorded
22/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey mill with half-attic, built 1868, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, central rooflight to rear (south) pitch, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on granite or slate flagged eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with cut- or hammered granite flush quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central opening with red brick voussoirs framing timber waterwheel in cast-iron frame. Elliptical-headed flanking openings with red brick voussoirs framing timber boarded double doors. Square-headed window openings (half-attic) with slate sills, and cut- or hammered granite block-and-start surrounds with fittings now missing. Set in grounds originally shared with Ballyhighland.
Appraisal
A mill not only surviving as an interesting relic of the Ballyhighland estate following the demolition of the eponymous country house, but also illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of the estate following its sale (1868) to James Moffat JP (1825-94; Hickey alias Doyle 1868, 174-5).by water power' (Hickey alias Doyle 1868, 174-5).