Wade Mill

MOLLAND SS 72 NE 14/58 Wade Mill 19.4.77 GV II Watermill. Probably early C19, with probably mid-Cl9 additions. Random stone rubble, with some red-brick dressings to addition. Gable-ended Welsh-slate roofs, monopitch over addition. Plan: Long rectangular plan. The watermill is at the right-hand end with the waterwheel at the back. The mid-C19 single storey addition at the left was probably a sawmill. Exterior: Probably early C19 2-light small-paned wooden casement with slightly- segmental stone arched heads, 2 to first floor and 1 to ground floor at right. 2- leaf boarded door off-centre to right with wrought-iron strap hinges and segmental stone-arched heads. Blocked door off centre to left (see differing masonry). Loft beam-ends visible above first-floor windows. Right-hand gable-end has first-floor boarded door to right with segmental stone-arched head and 2-light attic window with segmental stone arched head, formerly loft doorway (see partly blocked opening). 2- light loft window in left-hand gable end too with stone-arched head. Former sawmill adjoining to left has 3 large windows to front with flat stone-arched heads and boarded double doors under segmental brick-arched head in left-hand return front. Rear of mill not inspected but retains external metal water wheel, referred to in the old list as overshot (April 1977). Interior: Wooden cross-beamed ceilings and wooden stairs between floors. 4-bay roof, with each truss consisting of principal rafters, collar, posts from tie-floor beam to ends of collar and post from collar to apex. Largely complete wood and iron machinery and other fittings. Millstones not noted at time of survey (July 1987). 2-step spurwheel drive arrangement. Heavy wooden frame housing pitwheel and spurwheel on ground floor, formerly driving 2 pairs of stones on first floor. Secondary drive take-off from second spurwheel on first floor with line shafting to first floor and also taken through ceiling to drive sack hoist in loft. Wooden hatches for sacks in floors. Grain bins to loft, with shutes to former stones on first floor.

Listing NGR: SS7912126664