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Detached fourteen-bay (two-bay deep) six-storey mill, built 1800, on a T-shaped plan originally seven-bay (single-bay deep) four-storey on a rectangular plan with two-bay (five-bay deep) six-storey central return (north). In alternative use, 1911. Disused, 1973. Now in ruins. Roof now missing retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone walls retaining sections of rendered surface finish (east) with cut- or hammered granite flush quoins to corners supporting battlemented parapets on lichen-spotted cut-limestone stringcourses having lichen-spotted cut-granite "saddleback" coping. Square-headed window openings in camber- or segmental-headed recesses with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing remains of six-over-six timber sash windows without horns behind wrought iron bars. Square-headed window openings (north) with red brick block-and-start surrounds framing rendered infill. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds perpendicular to road with roughcast piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting corrugated-iron double gates.
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