Watermill, Mill Of Clinter

The Watermill at Mill Of Clinter dates back to 1819, with an additional storey added in 1886. It is a two-storey building in an L-plan shape, constructed from coursed granite rubble with harl-pointing, and features granite ashlar on the south elevation. The building has long and short dressings and quoins, along with boarded timber doors.

The east elevation is asymmetrical and consists of four bays. It has a two-leaf door to the right on the ground floor, two windows to the left, and a horizontal timber from a former lean-to addition that has since been demolished. There is a cast-iron drive shaft extension running along the outfall channel to the outer left, and three windows on the first floor, along with three two-pane skylights in the attic.

The north elevation is also asymmetrical, featuring an off-centre two-leaf boarded timber door with a four-pane fanlight, accessed by a flight of stone steps from the right. There is a two-pane skylight to the left in the attic.

The west elevation is asymmetrical as well, with a gabled bay to the left that has an opening on the ground floor and is set in the gablehead. There is a window and a boarded timber door on the right return, and a recessed bay on the outer right with a hole for a chain from the water-regulator.

The south elevation features an asymmetrical design with an 8-spoke, low-breast timber and iron paddle wheel on the ground floor, along with square axles and an opening above.

The building predominantly has six-pane timber windows and a part-piended grey slate roof with tiled and lead ridges. There is a slate-hung octagonal vent, which is partially missing, at the ridge, and a pig weathervane that has slipped to the eaves on the north side.

Inside, the complete interior has survived, including machinery installed in 1886. This includes a winnowing machine, hoists, flap hatch doors, hoppers, chutes, millstones, a furnace, and a drying floor with perforated cast-iron plates.

There is a weir and lade running from the west of the mill, as well as a secondary wheel and outfall channel. The secondary wheel is a 6-spoke timber and iron wheel with square axles, located to the south of the principal wheel in a cement-faced channel that joins the rubble-wall outfall to the east. A small segmental-arched granite bridge is also present to the east.