Description

Mid-late 18th century. 3-storey meal-mill, roughly
rectangular in plan with later single storey threshing
mill abutting to W. Random rubble with stugged ashlar
dressings.
N ELEVATION: entrance at ground floor, with further 1st
floor doorway above. Window to 2nd floor. Kiln to right
with small opening to centre below eaves.
S ELEVATION: noteworthy low breastshot waterwheel to
main block, measuring 426cm (outside diameter) by 150cm
(width) originally with 30 wooden paddles each 3cm
thick. Window at 1st and 2nd floor. Gabled 2-storey
single bay and single storey piend-roofed threshing mill
butt joined to W.
Red pantiles to mill, threshing mill and to steep
truncated pyramidal roof of kiln (ventilator missing).
INTERIOR: much of machinery survives; waterwheel drove
2 pairs of millstones, one for grinding, the other for
shelling. A grain bruiser, pearl barley wheel and
gearing also remain. The sack hoist is of interest;
could be operated from any floor, has a dog clutch and
automatic and manual disengaging device.
Kiln floor is 30cm below 2nd floor level of the mill;
constructed of cast-iron perforated plates. Single
bagging outlet from kiln floor to mill. Access to kiln
firebox external; internal route blocked.

Statement of Interest

Existing mill probably built on the site of former mill

to serve the Gilmerton estate; mill buildings appear on

Forrest map 1799. Wheel drive unusual; as is the

absence of shaking conveyors and bucket elevators.

Milling ceased by early 1940s, waterwheel pit now silted

and the lade diverted to power a generator. Mill and

accompanying cottages recently sold; proposals made for

restoration (1989).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17569285

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)