Crowan Mill

SW 63 SW CROWAN CROWAN

4/142 Crowan Mill - 1.5.70 GV II

Mill and millhouse. The millhouse probably C18 and the mill circa mid-late C19. Granite rubble walls with dressed granite quoins, sills, jambstones and lintels; the house is moorstone, the mill has slate sills. Scantle slate roofs: the house has rendered chimneys over its gable ends. The much taller mill adjoins the left hand gable end of the house and has a hipped roof at right angles to the front. Plan : double depth 2 storey house with cross passage between the 2 front rooms. At the left hand side a 3 storeys over basement rectangular mill projecting farther at the rear. The overshot wheel and its bearing wall adjoin on the left hand side. The wheel has wooden buckets, and an inner cog wheel toothed in applewood and hornbeam. The machinery, last used in 1946, has been maintained in good running order (former list description May 1970). 3 storey over basement mill, left, and 2 storey house, right, with 1st floor rooms partly in the roof space. The mill has a symmetrical 3-bay front with a loading doorway to the middle of each floor with a window on either side. The second floor doorway has a dormered gable over to give more headroom and a cantilevered staging with railing in front. Ledged doors and 4-pane windows. Very small basement windows. The house has a nearly symmetrical 2 window front with central doorway within a C20 gable ended porch. The windows are 6-pane horned sashes. Interiors not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW6441734328