Angus HER - NO53SW0038 - BARRY MILL

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Primary ReferenceNO53SW0038
NameBARRY MILL
NRHE Card No.NO53SW38
NRHE Numlink 34603
HES SM No. NULL
HES LB No. 4649
Site Form Standing Structure
Site Condition Complete 2
Details Grain mill, still in use, now owned by NTS and open to the public, and miller's cottage. Formerly known as Upper or Over Mill. The site is documented as a mill from 1539, although the present building was rebuilt in 1814 after its predecessor was destroyed by fire. It was re-equipped in the late-19th century, an extension was built in 1930 and the kiln height was reduced in 1940. It is an irregular three-storey meal mill built on an L-plan, constructed in sandstone rubble and slates. It has a symmetrical two-storey, three-bay entrance elevation to northwest, with a door in a full-width single storey lean-to range. There is small-pane glazing in timber fixed and sash and case windows, and a pitched and piended Angus stone slate roof. It comprises of a meal floor (basement), milling or stone floor (ground floor) and hopper or bin floor (attic), with an apsidal kiln (4.4 metre, or 14.4 feet, in diameter) and an enclosed water wheel. The kiln is an Angus-type semi-circular kiln with a conical roof and ventilator. It has a small brick fronted fire at the lower ground, and access to the kiln floor is at the ground level via timber steps. There are three kiln chutes at the first floor. The overshot wheel is 4.7 metres (14.4 feet) in diameter, built of iron and wood, and consists of 30 wooden buckets, each 0.92 metres (3 feet) wide. The pit wheel is by by Messrs Thomson, Son and Co. of Douglas Foundry, Dundee (possibly 1881). The teeth of the other main gears comprise of alternating metal and beechwood. It is enclosed in a lean-to wheel house on the gabled southwest three-storey elevation to the southeast of the mill. The pair of millstones are of French burr stone, crafted by Messrs J Smith and son, Edinburgh. A mill lade and dam run parallel to the burn. The lade was damaged in a flood in 1984, the cost of repair bringing production to a close. There is a miller's cottage to the southwest. It is single-storey, with three bays, and is constructed from snecked red sandstone rubble with roughly square dressings, some tooled. There is a small red brick two-bay extension. The original cottage has a centre timber door and fanlight, flanked by timber sash and case windows with a 12-pane glazing pattern. To the east of the mill is the Upper Barry Mill Bridge (NO53SW0117), a single segmental arch bridge, constructed of rubble and with dressed voussoirs, with keystones dated 1775. Over one of the keystones is a stone depicting a ploughman and horses.
Last Update09/05/2022
Updated Bycpalmer
CompilerNCA
Date of Compilation23/08/2016

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Monument Type 1Monument Type 2Monument Type 3OrderProbability
MILLSWATER B100
WHEELSMILLOVERSHOTC100
DAMSMILL D100
LADESMILL E100
MILLSGRAIN A100
LEAN-TOS  F100
WINDOWSSASH & CASE G100
ROOFSSLATEPIENDEDH100
FLOORSMEAL I100
KILNSSEMI-CIRCULAR J100
ROOFS CONICALK100
VENTILATORS CONICALL100
WHEELSWOOD & IRON M100
BUCKETSWOODEN N100
PITSWHEEL O100
HOUSESWHEELLEAN-TOP100
MILLSTONES  Q100
COTTAGESRUBBLE-BUILTSINGLE-STOREYR100
DRESSINGSSQUARETOOLEDS100
EXTENSIONSBRICKREDT100
FANLIGHTS  U100
BRIDGESRUBBLE-BUILTSINGLE-ARCHEDV100
VOUSSOIRS DRESSEDW100
KEYSTONES DATEDX100