Former Mill and Wheel, 26 Burnside Road, Snipe Island, Dunadry, Co Antrim, BT41 2HZ

A two-storey former mill building with wheel, built c. 1800 and now converted into a house. Rectangular on plan, facing south; two-storey addition to rear. Located on the east side of Burnside Road. Pitched natural slate roof, blue/black angles clay ridge tiles; basalt rubble chimney to west gable; half-round cast-iron rainwater goods. Walling is coursed basalt rubble. Windows have camber-arched brick heads; those to first floor are replacement square-headed tri-partite timber and aluminium casements; those to ground floor are replacement 3/3 or 6/6 sashes. Sills are leaded. South elevation is six windows wide to first floor. All but one window (that to right of centre) has a corresponding opening to ground floor: timber French doors to each side and left of centre, sash windows to remainder. West gable is blank. North elevation is abutted at left by a two-storey extension of sympathetic but modern appearance. Exposed right section has three windows to first floor (as south). Ground floor has a former door opening to right, infilled with a multi-pane timber window with slate hung apron; sash window to its left. East gable is blank. Adjacent is a large breastshot waterwheel (restored). Spokes and floatboards are of timber construction with cast-iron perimeter wheels; there is a smaller diameter grooved wheel affixed to its west face. Foundry mark is illegible. The addition is L-shaped with pitched natural slate roof catsliding over projecting single storey section. Walling is painted brick. Windows are detailed as main block with square-headed openings. Principal entrance is located to west elevation, consisting of an elliptical-headed ten-panel Georgian door with fanlight; camber-headed window over. Setting The former mill is set on a secluded site surrounded by mature trees. The Rathmore Burn tributary flows directly to west, with tree-lined access lane and mill race set parallel and sluice gate at northern end. There is an ivy-covered chimney to north, surrounded by trees, and the remains of a coursed rubble stone outbuilding (roofless), to the north side of the access lane.