High Mill And Attached Mill House

SE 69 NE 4/113

FARNDALE EAST, MILL LANE, CHURCH HOUSES High Mill and attached Mill House

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Water mill and attached house. Early C19. Dressed stone, with pantile roof, with a red brick stack, and a stone gable stack plus stone coped gables. 3 storey mill building, with slightly later mill house to north west. South west front of mill has a doorway with plank door to left, and a single 2 light window to right, above 2 similar windows, and above again 2 smaller single light windows. To the left the mill house has a central glazed C20 door, flanked by 2 light casements, above 2 similar casements. North east front, mill building built into hillside only 2 storey with central boarded doorway, and above 2 small shuttered openings. Mill house to right has central doorway with to the left a 3 light casement, and to the right a small fixed light and beyond a 2 light casement, above a 3 and a 2 light casement. All openings have large flush stone lintels. To the south east gable front an attached single storey addition, possibly a stable, with a plank stable door and a window, above a single window to each floor. Interior. Mill has wheel house and wheel pit at south east end, wheel shaft survives, but the wheel has been replaced by a small iron wheel. Cast iron hurst gears and wooden shafting through 3 floors. There is a reputedly unique hurst drive on the top floor, which consists of wooden pegs driven into wooden discs forming a primitive bevel gear. A mill was first recorded on this site in 1276.

Listing NGR: SE6681397054