Clarabad Mill Cottage

Clarabad Mill is a mid to later 18th-century corn and flour mill, with a northwest wing dated 1854. Subsequent additions and alterations have resulted in a complex arrangement of blocks. The main block is three stories with an attic, five bays, and a rectangular plan, with a single-story projection to the front. There are also three- and two-story projections at the rear. A taller kiln house is adjoined to the right, again with a single-story projection to the front, and a lean-to addition at the rear.

The primary block is built of tooled sandstone rubble, partly rendered, with tooled quoins and long and short surrounds to the openings. A brick-built projection faces the front, while rear projections incorporate both sandstone rubble and brick. The kiln house is largely brick-built, with a brick addition to the rear and a sandstone rubble wing with tooled sandstone dressings attached to the front. A single-story, four-bay cottage is located to the west.

The northwest (front) elevation features single windows at all floors, centered, with an additional window off-center to the right. A single-story gabled wing projects to the left, with a single window at the upper floor and a blocked opening to the outer left. A sliding boarded timber door is located at ground level to the outer right. The kiln house is adjoined to the right, with a single window at the upper floor and a gabled wing projecting at ground level, featuring a lintel stone embossed ‘W.C.L 1854.’

The northeast (side) elevation shows the main gable end with centered single windows at all floors. A single-story, two-bay wing is recessed to the right with windows in both bays. A three-story wing is recessed to the left, featuring single windows at all floors off-center, and a two-story, four-bay wing adjoined to the left with squat windows at both floors in all bays.

The southeast (rear) elevation displays single windows centered at all floors and in a bay off-center to the right of the principal block, with a gabled projection off-center to the left. The taller kiln house is recessed to the outer left, with a single-story lean-to addition to the front.

The southwest (side) elevation features a two-story wing recessed to the right. The taller kiln house has single windows, with a single-story addition to the right, and a single-story, three-bay wing adjoined to the left, with a gabled opening breaking the eaves at the center and flanking single windows.

The principal block has part-ventilated, small-pane timber windows, along with small rooflights and various timber and metal windows elsewhere. The roof is grey slate to the main block, with part slate and part corrugated-iron roofs to the remainder, incorporating stone-coped skews and some ridge vents.

The interior of the mill was not inspected in 1999, but it is reported that original milling machinery has been removed.

The cottage is a single-story, four-bay building with harled walls and red sandstone dressings. Its southwest (entrance) elevation has a doorway off-center to the right (the door is missing), with blocked windows in two bays to the left and a blocked window to the outer right. It has a grey slate roof, stone-coped skews to the northwest, an apex stack, and a circular can. Internally, the cottage was also not inspected in 1999.