Description

Dated 1817 over door. Water-powered grain mill. Detached to N, round-ended barn.

MILL: rectangular rubble building with squared granite margins and quoins, built into fall of land. Wheelpit to W gable, wheel removed. Some internal machinery survives, gearing and 2 pairs of milestones. Granite end skews, ball finial to E gable apex, good graded slate roofs. Sandstone ridge.

BARN: long rubble-built barn, at S end site falls steeply and end is apsed; internal floor level is stepped. Squared rubble to openings ventilating slits. Good graded slate roofs.

Statement of Interest

The round-ended barn is a puzzling feature. It does not appear to have been either a corn drying-kiln or a horse mill, and any specialised usage is unknown beyond simply a barn and byrne. The round-end may simply be the result of the lack of good freestone in the vicinty, providing the easiest and cheapest alternative. The siting is dramatic.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17807547

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)