The Old Mill With Attached Wall To North West

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ROTHBURY B 6344 (South side, off) Thrum Mill The Old Mill with attached wall to north-west

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Mill and attached wall. C18, heightened and wings added in early C19. Tooled stone; Welsh slate roof. Rectangular 3-storey main block with external wheel at south end, and tower wings to east and west.

West elevation 3 storeys, 2 bays. Ground floor has boarded door on left and projecting gabled wing on right; 1st floor has 9-pane and 4-pane casements, 2nd floor part-slatted windows. Remains of blocked C18 windows in lower part of wall. Coped gables, stepped-and-banded left end stack. Wing has doorway and window on left return, cast-iron slatted ridge vent and stepped-and-corniced end stack. Attached 15-metre-long wall on far left has chamfered set back at mid-height and gabled coping.

Left return has 2 steps up to central boarded door. Rear elevation shows central projecting wing flanked by blocked windows, and 2 part-slatted windows to 2nd floor. Wing has arched opening under part-slatted window in end wall, chamfered eaves cornices and hipped roof; external stone stair to boarded door on right return. Right return of main block shows fragmentary remains of wheel, and central lst-floor window.

Interior altered; west wing contains remains of drying kiln.

Listing NGR: NU0681401591