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
- patient-tracery-moss
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Water mill
- Address
- Mill, Mill Street, Aberfeldy, PH15 2BG
- OS grid reference
- NN 855 490
- Coordinates
- 56.61942, -3.86721
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
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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