A former corn mill built in the early 1800s and later used as a maltings and cider mill.
Although I haven’t found any pictures, the listing mentions a water wheel and some machinery, so I went for a look.
This was a fairly rapid once round with the phone - turns out the grinding mill aspect is quite well preserved.
Starting as usual with a map, water was diverted from the River Leadon, running under one end of the mill.
Remains of the weir, which was originally built up higher with wooden boards.
Water went in through a sluice behind the front extension with the clapboard.
Then out through a culvert under the road, turning an undershot, or maybe low breastshot wheel.
The original mill has extensions at both ends, with hop drying kilns attached at the far end, out of sight on the right.
The water wheel turned this spoked wheel…
…which seems to have been connected by a belt to the smaller wheel at the end of the drive mechanism behind.
The drive mechanism is probably the most interesting bit - it’s a horizontal all-iron affair like a line shaft.
These were installed instead of the older arrangement with a vertical wooden shaft when cast iron became more readily available (the only derelict examples I’ve seen were in turbine-driven mills).
The two vertical takeoffs complete with height-adjusting (tentering) mechanisms are for the stones above.
Another takeoff at the end extends through the ceiling with a crown wheel at the top to drive other machinery on the first floor, including an external wheel.
What look like spare stones in a corner next to a wooden cabinet.
The cabinet may once have been a flour dresser (sieve) - next door is something that was definitely a dresser.
The top floor is mostly empty - this is the clapboard extension and a view down the rear side of the mill.
The middle section has a single pulley sack hoist with a roller to keep the rope out of the way lower down.
At the other end the tops of the kilns can be seen as bulges in the far wall.
One of the kilns has partially collapsed, but the remains of a drying platform can be seen in the other.
There are blocked-up entrances on the first floor where the hops went in and out.
I didn’t notice anything else specifically related to hop drying or apple crushing, but there’s a lot of miscellaneous woodwork lying around which could be connected.
The place is in poor condition with rotten boards and holes in the floors so you need to be a bit careful climbing around - same as with any old mill of this vintage really.
Although I haven’t found any pictures, the listing mentions a water wheel and some machinery, so I went for a look.
This was a fairly rapid once round with the phone - turns out the grinding mill aspect is quite well preserved.
Starting as usual with a map, water was diverted from the River Leadon, running under one end of the mill.
Remains of the weir, which was originally built up higher with wooden boards.
Water went in through a sluice behind the front extension with the clapboard.
Then out through a culvert under the road, turning an undershot, or maybe low breastshot wheel.
The original mill has extensions at both ends, with hop drying kilns attached at the far end, out of sight on the right.
The water wheel turned this spoked wheel…
…which seems to have been connected by a belt to the smaller wheel at the end of the drive mechanism behind.
The drive mechanism is probably the most interesting bit - it’s a horizontal all-iron affair like a line shaft.
These were installed instead of the older arrangement with a vertical wooden shaft when cast iron became more readily available (the only derelict examples I’ve seen were in turbine-driven mills).
The two vertical takeoffs complete with height-adjusting (tentering) mechanisms are for the stones above.
Another takeoff at the end extends through the ceiling with a crown wheel at the top to drive other machinery on the first floor, including an external wheel.
What look like spare stones in a corner next to a wooden cabinet.
The cabinet may once have been a flour dresser (sieve) - next door is something that was definitely a dresser.
The top floor is mostly empty - this is the clapboard extension and a view down the rear side of the mill.
The middle section has a single pulley sack hoist with a roller to keep the rope out of the way lower down.
At the other end the tops of the kilns can be seen as bulges in the far wall.
One of the kilns has partially collapsed, but the remains of a drying platform can be seen in the other.
There are blocked-up entrances on the first floor where the hops went in and out.
I didn’t notice anything else specifically related to hop drying or apple crushing, but there’s a lot of miscellaneous woodwork lying around which could be connected.
The place is in poor condition with rotten boards and holes in the floors so you need to be a bit careful climbing around - same as with any old mill of this vintage really.
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