Longaller Mill

ST 12 NE BISHOP'S HULL FRETHEY ROAD (north side, off)

4/158 Longaller Mill, Longaller

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Mill and attached mill house. Early C19, altered. Brick and rubblestone, rendered. Corrugated iron roof to mill and rear of house which at front has Welsh slates. 2 storeys, mill having basement and attic. House on left of 1:1 bays, mill of 3 bays. House: left bay projects having small 2-pane casement to each floor; right bay has C20 wood and glass porch on right (not of special interest) masking 6-panel door (top 2 panels glazed), with a 16-pane sash to its left on each floor; lateral stack at left end and another at junction of bays. Mill: at right end a board stable door in wood porch; at left end sluice with wooden sluice gate and door above in round-arched opening; to its right is mill race, having keyed elliptical-arched opening with double board door and cantilevered platform in front; between mill race and door are two windows, that on left barred, that on right with cambered head and 2-light small-pane casement. lst floor: double board door on right; 3 windows, cambered-headed, with 2-light casements. Rear: house has a 16-pane sash to each floor of right bay; outshut to left bay with tiny small-pane window at eaves and pantile-roofed lean-to beyond. Mill has triple-arched exit of sluice and mill race on right and 2-light small-pane casement windows, 2 on ground floor with door at left end, 3 on 1st floor with small window inserted to right of central Window; end of tie rod. Right return of mill: on right, keyed elliptical-arched doorway with double board door; board door above with window to left as rear; in gable the circular ends of 3 tie-rods and a keyed round-arched window with small-pane glazing. Similar gable window to left return of mill, the left-hand side of the gable being hung with Welsh slates. Interior of mill: iron columns support cross-beams on lowest floor at right end; on next floor cross-beams are of very large scantling with run-out chamfers, wide floor-boards; in attic, 5 collared principal rafter roof trusses, the collars bolted on, 3 tiers of staggered butt purlins, replacement rafters (late C20). Boarded and studded silos to rear. Mill machinery survives well including broad iron undershot water wheel with wooden gearing to 2 sets of stones, one set removed, and also to other machinery; crane by Armfield of Southampton; roller mill for grist by Armfield with red stencilling; garner floor has flour dresser by Gardner of Gloucester, smaller flour dresser by Robinson of Rochdale, corn cleaner by Armfield and corn bin; in attic, pulley wheel and chains for sack hoist for which there are trapdoors on each floor. A fulling and tucking mill stood on the site until 1823, when the present mill was rebuilt; it ceased to operate on a commercial basis in 1975.

Listing NGR: ST1968925202