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mill (water) — CARRICKASLANE

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Detached water-powered flax mill, built c.1880, with associated detached concrete chimneystack built c. 1910. Now disused. Multiple-bay single-storey water-powered flax mill, having three bays to east elevation and five to west, aligned north-south on south bank of river. Pitched replacement corrugated-iron roof and coursed rubble limestone walls with concrete block repairs and some collapsed sections. Square-headed window and door openings, with brick block-and-start surrounds, some boarded up with plywood. Camber-headed door opening to centre of south elevation. Cast-iron waterwheel to north gable, having high breast-shot feed from concrete trough. Three-stage chimneystack situated west of flax mill, constructed of cement-rendered mass concrete. Flue hole in middle stage, on west face. Cast-iron scutching stock to north-east inscribed 'A & W Smith & Co/ Woodside Works/ Paisley'. Located south of early nineteenth-century corn and flax mill, mill race flowing from mill to north.

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