Mill Building Attached To Mill House And Tail Rail Tunnel Arch Beneath Mill House

ADWICK-LE-STREET MILL LANE SE 50 NW (east end)

6/20 Mill building attached to Mill House and tail-race tunnel arch beneath Mill House II Water mill. Probably 1786 (date on house), altered. Rubble magnesian limestone, stone slate roof. 3 storeys, 2 openings to 1st floor; 2-storey wing to rear right. Quoins. Doorway to left has bonded ashlar surround with 2-piece round arch; unglazed casement on right beneath segmental brick arch. 1st floor: window on right as below, similar arch to doorway on left. 2nd floor: 2 wooden-framed openings beneath eaves. Rear: to left of wing is a tail-race tunnel (passing beneath the house) with segmental arch and keystone. Left return: windows to 3 floors and gable, all with brick-arched heads.

Interior: wooden platform for 4 sets of stones mostly in situ; the platform has a nosed edge and heavy-scantling members, 2 with shaped ends; 3 sturdy splat balusters are set between the platform and the ceiling beams. 1st floor: chamfered, heavy-scantling beams; collared principal-rafter roof to roar wing. 2nd floor: pattern-beak queen-post trusses with tusk-tenoned purlins. The house adjacent has an exposed datestone with shield flanked by scrolls and the numerals of the date at each corner.

Listing NGR: SE5411808895