Survey Data
Reg No
41400602
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Mill (water)
Date
1785 - 1795
Coordinates
264354, 343174
Date Recorded
30/03/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Series of attached multiple-bay two-storey buildings forming former corn mill complex, built c.1790, now derelict, predominantly roofless and much overgrown. Pitched slate roof to back-to-earth two-storey building to east. Coursed rubble limestone walls. Whitewashed rubble walls to gables and rear of eastern building and with remains of porch to front (south) elevation. Square-headed window openings to first floor with timber fittings. Square-headed window opening to west of front having steel-framed window. Segmental-headed opening with red brick voussoirs and blocked segmental-headed opening having gauged limestone voussoirs to front elevation. Gauged-brick round-headed opening to porch, blocked. Rear (north) of east building in use as outbuilding, with square-headed door opening having timber battened door. Coursed rubble limestone wall to river bank to front of mill, with gauged tooled limestone outlet opening for mill race originally running to north-west of mill and now in filled, opening now collapsing.
Appraisal
Despite its derelict condition, this former corn mill retains some interesting features including the opening to the river bank wall to the front which released water from the wheel-pit into the river. This opening adds contextual interest to the site which itself is architecturally interesting, retaining much of its original massing and having a split level mill designed for ease of loading of grains which would then move down through the mill as it was processed into flour or meal. The porch to the front of this building indicates that this was a relatively important building in the complex, which as a whole is reminiscent of the industrial agricultural heritage of the area.