Clyston Mill And Attached Miller'S House

SX 99 NE BROADCLYST BROADCLYST

5/69 Clyston Mill and - attached Miller's House

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Water mill with house attached. Late C18. Red sandstone rubble. The mill (to the left) of 3 storeys with half-hipped slate roof, the house of 2 storeys, its slate roof half-hipped to right-hand end. Mill: 3 window range, almost all the window openings boarded, the second-floor, right-hand window partly blocked. The undershot iron wheel with timber paddles largely intact under weather-boarded shelter, 2 storeys high. Internal floors and divisions survive complete, but some of the mill gear removed to Cotehele, Cornwall. House: 5 window range, all windows under limestone window arches with volcanic trap keystones. Casement windows, timber : 4 at ground level of 2 lights, 15 panes to each light, those at 1st floor level of 2 and 3 lights. All panes leaded, many of those above with original C18 catches. Rear, of sandstone, with 2 stacks and a C20 brick extension; three 2-light casement windows. Clyston Mill is probably on the site of the mill recorded in Domesday Book. The earliest recorded mention of Broadclyst is as Gliston or Cliston.

Listing NGR: SX9805997267