The Old Corn Mill With Attached Pigsty And Stable

This is a late 18th-century corn mill, with additions from the 19th century, located on Boroughbridge Road in Bishop Monkton. It has been converted into a furniture workshop and incorporates attached pigsties and stables, now used as stores. The building is constructed of coursed squared limestone with a purple slate roof. It is approximately six bays wide, with a further three bays added later to the south. Attached at right angles to the right side are pigsties and a two-storey stable block. The south gable end has a round arch with double board doors on the left and a lower, blocked arch to the right, with three square recesses above. The first floor features a blocked central loading door with a cambered head, flanked by square windows with projecting stone sills and cambered arches; the right window is also blocked. A narrow blocked window is set into the gable, with the base of an ashlar stack directly above. The left return side has square windows with cambered arches and projecting sills, most of which are now blocked. The right return side features three board doors, the rightmost having an overlight. The windows have side-sliding sashes with glazing bars. The attached range to the right features two pigsties with low board doors, iron ventilation grills, and feeding chutes, alongside a two-story cart-shed and stable with a hayloft above. The cart-shed and stable have gritstone quoins and dressings to the front, and brick gable walls. A double door to the left of the cart-shed has a large lintel, with a loading door above set within an alternate quoined surround. The stable door to the right has a chamfered surround. A window with a four-pane sash is located to the right, along with a window opening above. Inside the main mill, the original mill machinery remains largely intact, including cogs, chutes, and millstones. A wheelhouse is located at the rear (north end) of the main range, although the wheel itself is no longer present.