Disused corn mill at Kinghill, 6 Kinghill Rd, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5RB

Two-storey/ single bay mill with similar return. Approached by a single arch random rubble bridge over a deeply incised stream bed. Built into west-facing slope. Aligned north-south, with external waterwheel on north gable. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting scalloped bargeboards to south gable. Walls of random schist and granite rubble brought to courses; projecting brick eaves. Principal facade faces to west. At ground floor centre is an infilled brick-arched entrance. A second entrance, with granite head, at right. First floor blank. At left are the remains of an external (engine) drive to the mill machinery. Comprises a pulley linked to a small pinion driving a larger spur gear from which a shaft runs to inside. All of cast-iron except wooden cogs of spur gear. North gable has window to first floor (opening all in granite). External waterwheel survives in ruinous condition. Comprises timber axle, two cast-iron hubs (for eight arms), cast-iron rims (with housings for 48 angled wooden buckets). Wheel measures approx. 4.88m dia x 1.19m wide (c.16ft 0in x 3ft 11in). High breast shot, with ashlar granite lining to lower section of curved apron. Water carried on concrete-shuttered launder from headrace to east of mill. A short tailrace, now infilled, to stream. East facade abutted to middle by two-storey return. Immediately left of this return is an entrance door to first floor of mill. Accessed by a walkway carried on granite lintels from sloping ground behind. To right of return, also at first floor, is a window opening (again with granite surround). Ground floor is blank. South gable has a window to each floor. Both have brick heads and stepped brick jambs. The abutting return is two storeys high and has a half-hipped natural slate roof (with skylight to south pitch). Random rubble walls brought to courses; projecting brick eaves. Traces of lime render. South facade has window similar to those on south gable of mill. East gable has a t+g beaded door to first floor (external ground at same height). The north facade has a semicircular brick arch rising to just above the ground floor ceiling (the wall below has collapsed). There is a smaller brick arch to ground floor at right. Low ruins to north of north gable of mill may be all that is left of the former flax mill (see historical description).