The Old Corn Mill

The Old Corn Mill is a former corn mill, now used as accommodation, dating from the early 19th century, with remodelling occurring around the 1970s. The building is constructed of shale rubble walls with granite quoins, jambstones, and lintels, and has an asbestos slate roof, hipped at either end of the south range, a gable end at the north, and over a single-storey wing at the east. It has an irregular, L-shaped plan, comprising an original rectangular range (south), extended shortly thereafter with a wide, oblique-ended wing and, at the rear left, a single-storey oblique-ended wing to the right. A restored wheel is incorporated at the left-hand end. The building is three storeys high. The south front retains some original openings, some of which are blocked or partly blocked, with new ones cut during the conversion. A loading doorway to the second floor, towards the left, with a hoist dormer, has been altered to create more windows. The other elevations display a similar mix of original and new openings; the right-hand (east) wall of the rear wing has been mostly rebuilt. Though altered in the 20th century, much of the original mill structure remains. It was a particularly large mill for Cornwall.