Moarfield, Yell is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1998. Watermill.
Moarfield, Yell
- WRENN ID
- crooked-balcony-sage
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1998
- Type
- Watermill
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Later 19th century, with mid 20th century alteration. Substantial former horizontal (subsequently under-shot) watermill, sited in gully steeply sloping to E. Drystone rubble walls with wallhead raised in concrete, corrugated-iron cladding to steeply-pitched roof and gableheads. Mill based on standard horizontal mill arrangement of rectangular drystone rubble building containing upper and lower houses with rectangular openings to inlet and outlet. Lower house contains remains of boarded timber waterwheel wheel on iron axle with pulley wheel at S end, axle located in bearings mounted on central dwarf wall and recesses in gables. Cat-slide dormerhead to entrance door at outer right of E elevation, accessing upper house containing timber mountings at S gable for gear-wheels (now gone 1997), and millstones stored in NE corner.
Small concrete dam nearby to N with 2 sluice gates, that to E feeding concrete lade leading to timber chute piercing lower house. Stone slab footbridge over stream to S of dam.
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