Guyzance Mill

ACKLINGTON GUYZANCE NU 20 SW 7/19 Guyzance Mill II

Mill, early C19 ( 183? date scratched on kiln). Coursed rubble with cut and tooled quoins and dressings. Rectangular block with lower pent-roofed parts to east (wheel house), north (drying kiln) and west. South elevation: main block 3 storeys, 2 bays; ground floor shows boarded window and doorway with timber lintel, 1st floor two 24-pane Yorkshire sashes and 2nd floor two windows, lost carpentry; all windows in chamfered alternating- block surrounds with slightly-projecting sills. Coped gables; small stepped- and-banded left end stack. Wheel-house to right has tall opening with corbelled lintel. Left return shows lst-f1oor 24-pane Yorkshire sash. Rear elevation shows stable door under boarded double pitching door, both in chamfered surrounds, to right of kiln; two 2nd-floor windows lost carpentry.

Interior: undershot iron-and-timber waterwheel, probably once external (c.f. Brinkburn Mill and Thrum Mill, Rothbury). Stones, gearing and some machinery in situ.

Derelict and in poor condition at time of survey; west pent outshut roofless.

Listing NGR: NU2063503489