Mill House, Crumplehorn Inn

LANSALLOS CRUMPLEHORN SX 2051-2151

5/21 Mill House, Crumplehorn Inn

GV II Mill, now part of public house and holiday accommodation. Circa late C18. Painted stone rubble with slate roof with gabled ends. Plan altered with machinery removed. Mill wheel retained on left-hand gable end. 2 storeys, asymmetrical 2-window front. Ground floor with C20 2-light casement with glazing bars and C20 part glazed stable door to right. Both beneath timber lintels. First floor with 2 C20 2-light casements with glazing bars. Row of pigeon holes beneath eaves. Hybrid overshot mill wheel on left-hand gable end by G.H. Harris of Wadebridge. Replaces earlier timber wheel. Originally called Killigarth Manor Mill. Site located on Tithe Apportionment Maps (1839). Last occupant Zephaniah Job. Closed between 1923 and 1926. Zephaniah Job was probably the greatest single benefactor in Polperro acting as advisor, accountant and banker. See photograph taken in about 1910 of Mill in S de Burlet's Portrait of Polperro 1977, p 27. Also photographs of earlier Mill taken circa 1860s by Lewis Harding. See A. Lanyon The Rooks of Trelawne, 1976.

Listing NGR: SX2048251523