Mill, Mill Street, Aberfeldy is a Grade A listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Water mill. 2 related planning applications.

Mill, Mill Street, Aberfeldy

WRENN ID
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Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1971
Type
Water mill
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Dated 1826, the building is a single-storey with attic and part basement, L-plan former water mill situated within the Breadalbane Estate. It was constructed in a Gothic style, incorporating a cast-iron overshot waterwheel. The mill is built of chlorite-slate rubble with large quoins and stone cills, featuring timber outshots and a kiln housing. It has voussoired, pointed-arch openings.

The southwest (entrance) elevation has a broad door in a bay to the right of the centre, with a dormer window above. An advanced gable extends to the outer right, containing a ground floor door and attic floor windows. Further windows are present on each floor to the left, with those to the attic breaking the eaves. A small, square-headed door is set under a relieving arch in the re-entrant angle. To the left of the centre is a slightly advanced gable with a timber-blocked opening in the gablehead. A set-back bay to the outer left features a square-headed door and a timber-blocked opening above, breaking eaves into a dormerhead. A timber base of the kiln housing adjoins the eaves on the right, leading to a swept pagoda roof with an unusual stepped top.

The southeast (waterwheel) elevation is characterised by a steep fall to the northeast. It contains two bays to the left with windows to each floor, again with attic windows breaking the eaves. A broad gable to the right houses the waterwheel at basement level, with windows on each floor above.

The waterwheel itself measures 15 feet in diameter; it's an 8-spoke, cast-iron framed overshot design, fed by a mill lade from the Moness Burn.

The northeast elevation has a gabled, single bay to the outer left, followed by later, timber-clad additions housing a café on the basement floor. A rubble bay to the outer right contains a broad, square-headed door under a relieving arch.

The northwest elevation is a blank, gabled form displaying a 'watermill' sign.

The windows feature diamond glazing-patterned, two-leaf timber casements. The roof is covered with grey slates, and features deeply overhanging eaves with plain bargeboarding.

Internally, the building was converted around 2004 for use as a bookshop, gallery, and café. The attic floor contains a Milson dresser and retains the grain milling floor with two pairs of 1.5 ton French burr stones. The basement, which has a vaulted ceiling, houses a great spur wheel made of beechwood.

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