Mount Bellew Mills

Detached six-bay three-storey former mill building, built c.1860, now used as warehouse, having single-storey rendered twentieth-century extension to east. Double-pitched slate roof with brick chimneystack to west, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lean-to roof to outer two west bays. Squared and snecked ashlar limestone walls with pair of gable-fronts to front façade, random rubble walls to side and rear. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone flat arches above, tooled limestone sills, and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed entrance to outer bays with timber sheeted doors and flat arch above. Pitching doors to central gable, having timber sheeted doors and cut limestone flat arches. Oculus openings to gables. Set parallel to road with yard at front and rear, random rubble retaining wall to front, and recent steel-clad outbuildings to rear.

Originally part of the Mountbellew Estate, this former watermill used water from the nearby lake to provide power to grind the grain to flour. The handsome limestone façade still retains its pitching doors on upper levels to accommodate grain storage. Mills were an important part of local agricultural life and key to the economic development of an area. Set up by the Bellew family to provide a place to process the grain being produced on the estate this mill is an important part of the industrial heritage of the area.