Aberdeenshire HER - NJ96NE0019 - SANDHAVEN MEAL MILL

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Primary ReferenceNJ96NE0019
NameSANDHAVEN MEAL MILL
NRHE Card No.NJ96NE27
NRHE Numlink 95206
HES SM No. NULL
HES LB No. 15885
Site Form Standing Structure
Site Condition Complete 2
Details Former meal mill and steading, now in use as a museum, built in the early 19th century. The mill ceased to function as a mill in the early 1980s, and was restored by the Banff and Buchan District Council in the early 1990s, and operates as a museum. It is depicted on the 1st edition OS map as a corn mill, made up of a group of four buildings and a U-plan steading, with mill lades leading to both and a mill pond to the south. On the 2nd edition OS map one of the mill buildings has been removed and there are additions and alterations to the others. The steading has been altered to L-plan. Current OS maps show further alterations and additions to the mill buildings and steading. The path of part of the mill lade is still depicted, and the area of the mill pond is depicted as marshland. The north-western mill building is B-listed, and is a rectangular mill and kiln of different builds. The building is two storeys, with a lean-to projecting wing at the rear forming an L-plan. It is constructed from dark whinstone rubble and has tooled rubble dressings. There is an entrance in the centre of the south elevation and also in the rear wing, and the kiln at the west has a blocked window in the ground floor of the west gable and a centre kiln window in the gable and south elevation. Two windows light the south elevation of the mill. There are slate roofs with an octagonal ridge vent to the kiln and a silhouette of pig forms wind vane. The wheel gable at the east has the remains of an overshot eight-spoke wheel, served by a trough lade.
Last Update16/07/2019
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Monument Type 1Monument Type 2Monument Type 3OrderProbability
MILLSMEAL A100
KILNS BRICKB100
VENTS ABERDEENSHIREC100
WHEELSWOOD & IRONOVERSHOTD100
STONESMILL E100
SHEDS LEAN-TOF100
STEADINGS  G100
LADESMILLREMAINS OFH100
PONDSMILLREMAINS OFI100