Loftus Mill And Millhouse With Mill Race Adjoining.

LOFTUS GASKEL LANE NZ 71 NW (off north side), Loftus 1/12 Loftus Mill and millhouse with mill race adjoining. - II Watermill mid C18, and adjoining late C18 mill house incorporating remains of older house. On site of medieval mill. Left-hand part of mill now part of house. Chevron-tooled dressed sandstone; coursed random drystone retaining wall of race. Renewed clay pantile roofs. 2 storeys, 2 windows to house. Central 6-panel door and narrow overlight with glazing bars. Mid/late C20 segmental-plan bay windows on brackets, on ground floor; 24-pane horizontal sashes with painted sills, on first floor. Mill has 2 doorways with keyed lintels, now holding late C20 casement windows, at left. Similar window on first floor and loft door to right over ground-floor window opening. Retaining wall of race, with flight of eleven steps and stone-lined water channel, adjoins right-hand side of mill; fed mill wheel through opening in first floor. Block kneelers and stack at left end; ridge and gable copings. Blocked fire window in older left return of house, and 2 garret lights in gable. Continuous single-storey outshut adjoins rear of house. Interior: house retains beamed ceilings on ground floor. Machinery removed from left-hand part of mill; right-hand part has some early/mid C19 timber and cast iron machinery and late C19 wheel. Stables and out buildings to rear are not of special interest. Mill house included for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ7193618123