Small Corn Mill, Carickhugh, Ballykelly, Limavady, Co Londonderry

A small stone barn forming part of the historic mill complex at Carrickhugh, near Ballykelly, County Londonderry.

The building is a two-storey structure aligned east to west, with its west gable abutting the unnamed road connecting Clooney Road to Carrickhugh Station. This road runs at first floor level of the barn. The west gable has a standard-sized door trimmed in yellow brick providing access at this level, with a small hip in the roof approximately one metre from the apex—an unusual feature for the area. The south elevation is three bays long, with windows (now missing their frames) set in the stone walls and trimmed with brick. Near the centre at ground level, the head of a brick arch at a lower level is visible. A high stone wall extends eastward from the building to the entrance gates of the renovated miller's house. The east gable is blank, though traces of a lower pitched roof that once abutted the wall remain visible. The north elevation is similar to the south, with timber louvres surviving on the first floor windows. A perpendicular wall projects from the building near the east end, now badly decayed and overgrown. As ground levels drop, a blocked-up brick arch below the ground floor becomes increasingly exposed.

The building was destroyed by fire many years ago. Early maps describe it as a drying kiln. It is marked as a 'Kiln' on the 1831 Ordnance Survey Map and as a 'Corn Kiln' on the 1848 map. The 1848 map shows the building was originally twice its present length with a central projection to the north; this extended section contained the corn kiln itself—a vaulted brick structure with ovens at its base and an iron grill system above for drying corn. A mill stream passed through the building along the line of the present arches, suggesting there was likely a wheel for grinding corn. The extended half was demolished in the mid-1980s during renovations to the adjacent miller's house, at which point it was already roofless (as shown on the 1977 survey map). The 1923 Ordnance Survey Map shows the building slightly extended toward the miller's house but unmarked as a mill. The building is not mentioned in the Ordnance Survey Memoirs or Griffiths Valuation of 1858, which refer only to a single corn mill and kiln in the townland—most likely the larger complex further down the hill. The structure is of industrial archaeological interest as part of the Carrickhugh mill complex, though of limited architectural value.