Ardmore Flour Mill, Ardmore, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49 OPD

Group of former mill buildings and a cottage forming an approximately square courtyard south west of Ardmore Lodge (HB02/08/014). Main mill building to the north east side of the courtyard is a three storey structure eight bays wide in rubble stone with brick trims to the windows. (Two bays are obscured by a two storey mill projecting to the south east are in brick). The windows are all of a similar size with segmental head, centre pivot metal windows, with 18 small panes. The roof is in corrugated metal with central cast iron downpipe. There are two doors to the courtyard at ground level one at the north west end has been broken open between two windows and has an exposed ‘I’ beam lintel. One at the south east end has a segmental brick lintel similar to the windows. A third door is at first floor in a window position near the centre. The two storey building projecting to the south east has cut sandstone ashlar quoins and trims to the openings with rubble between. The openings all have segmental heads. There are five door openings to the courtyard at ground floor irregularly spaced and two windows. Heads do not align as there is a small slope across the facade. At first floor are two door openings and four circular brick trimmed window openings (two on the ground level are blocked up. The roof is slated, rainwater goods cast iron. The south west of the courtyard is enclosed by a single storey rubble stone shed with corrugated metal roof and is four structural bays long. It is open to the yard and used as a garage. The north west side of the courtyard is enclosed by a gate and a white washed single storey brick cottage with slate roof and two brick chimneys extending to a tarred corrugated roof over an aligning shed. To the north east of the group is a large mill pond (dry) with banked sides aligning with the first floor of the main mill. A decayed sluice in timber and concrete is connected to the north west end of the building. A timber bridge with vaulted brick arch below accesses a door at first floor on the south east end. The six pane sash windows are arranged irregularly. Six bays to the north west are in rubble stone the two bays to the south east are in brick. The mill race which runs south east to just beyond Ardmore Bridge is intact for its whole length. There is a concrete sluice at the entrance to the pond. The rear of the two storey mill is not in ashlar work as is its courtyard elevation. Rubble stone, with brick surrounds to six ground floor openings. There is a vertical joint as it abuts the main mill. The rear of the sheds does not abut the two storey building. There are three window openings. The cottage has two four pane sashes in its south west gable and a long porch with lean-to roof in the north west side facing the path to Ardmore Lodge.