King'S Meaburn Mill

King’s Meaburn Mill is a corn mill, disused at the time of inspection, dating to 1811 with minor 20th-century alterations and additions. It’s constructed of coursed rubble stonework with dressed stone quoins, and features dressed stone surrounds for doors and windows, all under a slate roof laid to diminishing courses. The mill is located below a leat from the River Lyvennet, which runs through the wheelhouse.

The building comprises a three-storey mill, a two-storey corn-drying kiln to the right, and an external wheelhouse to the left. The kiln roof extends to join a 20th-century canopy over the mill's front. The main entrance is in the right-hand end wall, featuring a basket arch headed double doorway with stone quoins and voussoirs. The front elevation has two upper-floor windows, sixteen-pane window frames, and a circular datestone, a former millstone, bearing the date ‘1811’ set between the windows. First and ground floors each have a single window, also with sixteen-paned frames. A triangular opening with dove perches is at the gable apex to the right. The kiln house has a single upper-floor opening and a 20th-century single-storeyed lean-to against the gable. The left-hand gable supports the now roofless external wheelhouse. The rear elevation has windows to the upper and first floors and two ground-floor doorways.

Inside, the wooden floor is supported by substantial floor beams. King post trusses support three tiers of purlins. The ground floor retains horizontal and vertical shafts that supported wooden-toothed metal gearing, which formerly transferred power to the stone floor above. Heavy wooden framing supports four pairs of in-situ millstones on the first, or 'stone' floor, accessible by a wooden staircase. The attic floor retains the hoist mechanism which lifted sacks of grain through hinged trap doors to the highest point of the building, to be gravity fed onto the stones below. The wheelhouse contains a composite low breast wheel with a wooden shaft and spokes, iron side plates, shaft housings and bearings. The kiln house includes a ground floor hearth and sections of the pierced metal mesh drying floor above. The roof structure and covering have been renewed, replacing the original ventilation louvre.

This is an early 19th-century water-powered corn mill, largely unaltered externally, and still containing a composite low breast waterwheel, primary and secondary gearing, four pairs of millstones, and a corn-drying kiln. Group value derived from its well-preserved historic industrial features.