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Former corn mill and miller's house (NO64NW0148), in residential use. On the 1st edition OS map, the corn mill is depicted as a rectangular building with the south elevation over the mill lade. There is an L-plan building to the west. The miller's house to the north has a garden enclosure to the north-west, and there is a rectangular mill steading range to the east of it. On the 2nd edition OS map, the corn mill has been extended, and incorporates or replaces the building to the north-west. The steading to the east of the miller's house has been extended to the east with a protruding range. A wall has been built to the east of the buildings, forming an enclosure around the complex, and there are some small buildings at the eastern extent of the enclosure. Current maps show the small buildings as removed. The two-storey rubble and slate former mill has an outside water wheel and an inset stone dated and initialled 'JC 1762', and there are additions to the building dated 1896. The miller's house is 18th century with a later addition in a similar style. In 1974, Hume described a two-storey and attic kiln and granary block and a six-spoke mid-breast shrouded paddlewheel with wooden spokes and paddles and iron rings and axle. The wheel is 3 feet 9 inches wide and 11 feet in diameter (1 metre by 3.4 metres), and drove two pairs of stones that are 5 feet (1.5 metres) in diameter, situated on a half-floor. The mill is disused by the time Hume describes it, however the interior machinery of the mill is described by HES as being reasonably complete in 2010. A building survey of the former mill steading was carried out by AOC in 2017. This is L-plan, built of stone rubble with dressed quoins and surrounds to the openings, and a stone tiles roof. The main north-south building comprised a large and small barn, with a later two bay small barn attached to the east elevation. Several phases of construction are evident. The north-south barn is the earliest building, this raised in height at some point to create more attic roof space, and the doorways altered to create a different internal layout, including addition of a new central doorway. All of the original cart openings have been blocked at a later date. The original building was a threshing mill, the later extension on the east side used as cart sheds. With later conversion to animal pens.
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NO64NW0124 - BOYSACK MILL, ARBROATH