Survey Data
Reg No
22207804
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Mill (water)
Date
1850 - 1890
Coordinates
235178, 128109
Date Recorded
14/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay four-storey with attic former mill, built c. 1870, now disused, having slightly lower single-bay three-storey with attic return, roofless two-bay two-storey addition to west and five-bay two-storey outbuilding attached to south-west. Pitched slate roofs with rendered coursed snecked sandstone walls to main block and rubble walls elsewhere. Wall ties to outbuilding. Square-headed window and door openings, main block having mainly two-light timber casement windows and some timber sliding sash two-over-two pane windows and remains of double-leaf timber battened half-door. Pitching doors to first floor of outbuilding. Multiple-bay single-storey rubble sandstone outbuilding with pitched slate roof to south-east and three-bay two-storey former miller's house further east. Millrace to east of site with rubble sandstone bridge, having margined cut sandstone voussoirs with date 1873 to keystone.
Appraisal
This watermill is a relic of the industrial heritage of the village of Glenbower. The mill race survives to the east of the building which, though now disused, remains largely intact. The outuilding to the south-west once housed horses for the Bianconi coaches, necessary for changeover en route.