Great Alne Mill

A corn mill, dating to the early and late 19th century, built on the site of an earlier mill. The mill retains water-powered machinery that is still used to produce stone-ground flour, although the former breast wheel has been replaced with a vertically mounted metal turbine in the same location to utilize drive shafts and belts. Original features include the mill race, some internal structures, mill grindstones, associated gearing, and bagging machinery from around 1800. A building was added to the southeast side to house a roller mill, which has since been removed, along with the engine that powered it.

The main mill block is a gabled, three-story structure with an attic, built in two sections. The three-bay northeast section is the earlier part, while a four-bay section was added later. The northeast end of the added section is higher, with two additional stories to accommodate grain cleaner cyclones. It has a gabled roof surmounted by cast iron cowls. A double-span wing, with two gables, extends from the northwest side of the main block. Each gable wall features a pair of semi-circular arched windows on each floor, with small-paned cast iron frames. The left-hand gable has a boarded hoist housing projecting from the second floor to the ridge, and the right-hand gable has a similar arched window. A workshop is located in the angle between the main block and the wing, with corrugated iron wall cladding and roofing.

The main range has segmental arched windows with cast iron frames on each floor, along with brick dentil eaves cornices and brick dentil string courses to the added floors. A hoist housing with corrugated asbestos sheet cladding projects from the northeast gable.

Inside, the floors are boarded, supported by pitch pine and oak joists and bridging beams on circular cast iron columns. The roofs are primarily queen post and purlin construction. A two-story miller’s house, with some 20th-century alterations, is attached to the northeast side of the main block and has timber casement windows with glazing bars.