The Corn Mill

The Corn Mill is a water corn mill, built in 1839 for the Howard estate at Corby Castle, and is currently used for grinding oats for pig food. It features coursed sandstone rubble walls and a hipped slate roof. The building is two and a half storeys tall and has two bays, with extensions to the south and east. It is a square bank-mill that includes an internal undershot water-wheel. The entrances and windows are framed with squared plain surrounds, and it has simple plank doors, half-boarded sashes without glazing bars, and louvre windows in the attic storey. A weather vane on the ridge features a lion, the heraldic device of the Howard family, with the date 1839 cut through it. The three-bay extension to the south includes a dovecote or pigeon loft, which has several openings and a large arched cart entrance. The entrance to the mill from the south has a slate-covered porch with an internal loading platform designed to keep the corn dry. The mill is still operational, with all its machinery dating from between 1839 and 1930, including a water-wheel made by Blaylock of Carlisle, which is dated to the 1850s. At the time of listing, the mill had been in continuous use since its construction. It is sometimes referred to as Little Corby Mill.