Tankerness Mill

Tankerness Mill is an early 19th-century, two-storey, five-bay T-plan mill that has undergone later alterations. It features a slightly raised kiln at the east end and an undershot water wheel at the west. The building is constructed of harl-pointed rubble with long and short quoins on the kiln.

On the south (principal) elevation, there is a deep-set boarded door located in a bay that is offset to the right of center, with a small window on each side. There is a window on each floor in the bay to the left of center, and a round-arched former wheel arch, now blocked, to the outer left. The bay to the right also has a window on each floor, and there is a window at the first floor in the kiln bay at the outer right.

The north (rear) elevation has a single-storey, two-bay projection from the central bay. It features remnant walls of a lean-to in front of a blank gabled bay, which has a tall gablehead stack above. There is a boarded door with a window flanking it on the left return and a small window, offset to the left, on the right return. A window is present at the first floor in the bay to the right of center, and there is a round-arched wheel arch, now blocked, in the bay to the outer right. A boarded door is located in the bay to the left, and there is a window at the first floor of the kiln bay to the outer left.

The west (side) elevation features the undershot wheel with a rubble retaining wall at the base of the gabled elevation. There is a small square opening at the base of the screen wall shielding the wheel, a window to the gablehead above, and a small ventilation hole to the left of the gablehead.

The east (side) elevation has a small opening at the first floor below a block-finialled gablehead. The mill has fixed, timber-framed windows, a stone slate roof, a corrugated-iron roof on the north projection, a stone ridge, stone skews, and a tall, corniced stack with a hexagonal, corniced extension to the north.

The interior was not seen in 1997. There is a curved, rubble-coped boundary wall extending from the south elevation, bordering a bridge to the south. A concrete lade directs water to the wheel from the north.