Carbis Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1987. A 18th century Mill. 2 related planning applications.
Carbis Mill
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-gutter-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1987
- Type
- Mill
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Carbis Mill is a miller's house with an adjoining mill, likely rebuilt around the early 19th century. Datestones indicate the presence of original elements from 1753 and 1754. The building is constructed from granite and elvan rubble with dressed granite quoins, jambstones, and lintels. The house has asbestos slate roofing with gable ends and a brick chimney on the left-hand gable, while the mill has a taller scantle slate roof with gable ends.
The house itself comprises two rooms, with a smaller parlour to the right and a kitchen to the left, separated by a lobby and staircase. A room behind the kitchen originally contained a fireplace, potentially used as a washhouse. Another room, situated behind the stairwell and parlour, was formerly used as a pig's house. The southwest elevation of the house presents a near-symmetrical facade with three windows; the doorway is slightly right of centre, featuring a four-panel door with flush-beaded panels, and early 19th century 12-pane hornless sash windows. Stones are inscribed above the doorway with "FE 1753" and in the left-hand gable end with "1753".
The mill, situated to the right of the house, has a slightly irregular two-window front. It includes a doorway towards the left, flanked by two small windows. A jambstone on the far left is inscribed with "JW 1874." There's a loading doorway above the ground floor entrance, with ledged doors and shutters to the second-floor windows. The right-hand gable end features a large 20th-century cut doorway, holes showing former machinery positions, and a small gable window where a reused millstone serves as a lintel. The rear elevation reveals holes indicating former machinery positions within the thicker ground floor wall, along with two windows on each floor above. The interior of the house displays 19th-century carpentry and joinery. The mill machinery was removed around 1960, although it originally included an overshot wheel on the right-hand side and at the rear.
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