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The entrance now has a walled flight of steps - in the corner, centre picture, there is a narrow arched doorway into cellar level which was the site of the mill race the west wall of which has been removed. |
Issued as a brief report in Vol VII #4 p734 of Proceedings IoMNH&ASoc
This is likely to occupy one of the older mill sites in Man but, as a monastic mill, was not subject to Lord's Rent and thus is not recorded in the earlier manorial rolls. After being secularised it worked with very considerable success, often in conjunction with the Creg mill but finally ceased work when its dam was breached by floods. In its final form the take off point for its leat was behind a dam of cut stone, like that surviving at the site of the Ochre and Umber mill (the next mill upstream), and the totally enclosed wheel was more or less centrally placed. It is probable that an earlier date the wheel was on the gable end of the building, possibly directly in the river.
Further research on the history of the mill is required.
The range of buildings lie at an angle to the river with the kiln partly brick built and almost the newest part of the mill, nearest the bank. The main working floor of the mill is reached by a flight of steps of which the top-most is a re-used millstone. The kiln has a basement, containing the heating apparatus, with a vaulted slate roof like that at Mullin e Quinney, Santon, and a floor of perforated tiles. The east end of the building has recently been reconstructed and the machinery had gone when Dr. Garrad took measurements in December 1969. There was provision for machinery at this end, powered by the same wheel, which at various times probably threshed, ground bark for tan pits and broke flax. The buildings are of local stone, colour washed (subsequently whitewashed) with a slate roof and bricked gables, which seem to be an eighteenth or early nineteenth architectural feature. The cast iron wheel is probably nineteenth century.
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