Centre Mill, Southvoe Water Mills, Burn Of Wiltrow, Southvoe is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 October 1977. Water mill.

Centre Mill, Southvoe Water Mills, Burn Of Wiltrow, Southvoe

WRENN ID
forbidden-cornice-foxglove
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 October 1977
Type
Water mill
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Later 19th century. Group of three horizontal "clack" mills. Mills conform to standard arrangement of rectangular and gabled buildings containing upper and lower houses with square openings to inlet and outlet. Drystone rubble walls.

West mill: roofless, upper house converted to lamb house, footbridge constructed from two large irregular slabs adjacent to west.

Centre mill: ruinous, partial survival of north gable with outlet at lower house surviving.

North mill: slab footbridge to west, adjacent to sluice gate feeding timber lade, and shute to tirl in lower house; vertically-boarded timber door in east gable, 'taekket' (straw thatched) roof, netted and with linkstanes (weights).

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