Description

LINKINHORNE SX 37 SW 7/1 Addicroft Mill - II Watermill with attached house. Probably C18 origin, largely of circa 1810, with later alterations of C19 and additions of C20. Slatestone and granite rubble, with brick dressings. Slate roofs with ridge tiles and gable ends. Gable end stacks to the house. Plan: The mill is of one-room plan, of 3 storeys, with the waterwheel at the front gable end. Attached to the rear left, and forming an L-plan, is the house, of the same build as the mill; this is of 2-room plan, with central entrance (formerly to a passage with a stair) with parlour to left and a kitchen to right, each room heated by a gable end stack. In the later C19, a cow house was attached to the right end of the house, now incorporated as part of the house. In the C20, and in course of construction at time of survey (October 1986) a 2-storey range at the rear of the house, running parallel. The mill leat runs to the front gable end of the mill and drives a breast shot wheel; the machinery inside is complete, by Jabez Buckingham of Northill, and in full working order. Exterior: The front gable end of the mill has the waterwheel, with cast iron rim and wooden floats. At first floor, a 2-light casement with flat brick arch, at 2nd floor a small 4-pane casement with flat brick arch. The right side of the mill has stable door at ground and first floor and 2-light casement at ground floor, all with cambered brick arches; doors and windows of C20 in original apertures. A C20 external stone stair forms a porch to the mill and leads to the first floor doorway in the mill and at the first floor of the house. The house is of 2 storeys, and has C20 door to left and 2-light casement to right, first floor door and 2-light casement, with flat brick arch, at 2nd floor a small 4-pane casement with flat brick arch. The right side of the mill has stable door at ground and first floor and 2- light casement at ground floor, all with cambered brick arches; doors and windows of C20 in original apertures. A C20 external stone stair forms a porch to the mill and leads to the first floor doorway in the mill and at the first floor of the house. The house is of 2 storeys, and has C20 door to left and 2-light casement to right, first floor door and 2-light casement, all of C20 with cambered brick arches. Straight joint to right, to the cow house, at lower roof level, with two 2-light casements at ground and first floor, all with cambered brick arches. The right gable end has C20 glazed door and C20 window at ground and first floor. At the left side, the mill has 2-light and single casement at ground floor with cambered brick arches. The gable end of the house, to left, has 2-light casement to right of the stack at ground floor, and 4-pane light to right and left at first floor. At the rear, 2- storey parallel range of C20, in stone rubble with slate roof and window openings with brick arches. Interior: The mill: On the spout floor are the pit wheel, wallower and great spur wheel ; this is a two-step drive, with two pairs of millstones on the stone floor. Both sides have the original gearing mechanism, so that the millstones may be driven separately. On the stone floor, both sets of stones retain wooden housing and hoppers, one pair of granite stones, and one pair of Buhrstones, with plaster of Paris. There is a secondary drive for a pulley up to the bin floor above. Also remaining in the mill is a grain cleaner, formerly worked by an electric fan, and a sack balance for weighing sacks of grain. Also a large spanner, and the stone rollers for apple crushing, which could also be geared from the waterwheel. A complete cider press also survives on site. The house The parlour to left has fireplace with granite jambs and cambered timber lintel; cupboard to right with shaped shelves and glazed doors with glazing bars. In the rear wall of the parlour is a 2-light casement, now internal, with panelled shutters. The kitchen to right has gable end fireplace with squared granite rubble jambs and flat timber lintel, chamfered with run-out stops. Rough chamfered cross beams. Although the house has been altered and enlarged, the mill building and its machinery are complete, and most unusual in being in full working order.

Listing NGR: SX3006272910

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