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Former mill and associated buildings, now in residential use, and mill lade. The mill was built in circa 1855, and converted to residential use in the 1990s. The miller's house was to the North-West of the main mill building (NO65NW0046), and the lade serving this mill continues on to Arrat Mill to the East (NO65NW0045). It is shown on the 1st edition OS map (1861) as being a flour mill, with the main mill building to the South, adjacent to the river, and further buildings to the North and West, including a larger building complex directly to the North-West. A sluice is shown at the Western extent of the mill lade. On the 2nd edition OS map (1901), the mill is much the same, although one of the small associated buildings to the North-West has been removed. It is also now annotated as a corn mill. There are two sluices shown to the South and West of the mill building, and a second sluice is also now shown at the Western extent of the mill lade. On the revised 2nd edition OS map (1922), the mill building has been greatly extended, being shown as having incorporating one of the associated buildings to the West, and also with extensions to the North. Presently, the mill has a three-storey section with a two-span roof oriented roughly North/South, with double kilns added to the North with pyramidal roofs and circular ventilators. It was powered by a 15 feet (4.5 metres) low breast-shot water wheel on the South end, with a cast-iron hub and rim, with eight wooden arms and 32 buckets. A single-storey extension to the East elevation was removed in the 1990s, when it was converted for domestic use. Adjacent to the West of this is a smaller two-storey building, with a smaller single-storey building to the West of it again. These are all adjacent, and make up the main mill building. The South ends of the smaller sections have been white-washed, but all the other elevations show the rubble construction. There is a mix of gabled and piended roofs used as well as the pyramidal roofs to the kilns, but all are slate. The building to the North-West has a triple span roof and concrete floor, with double doors.
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NO65NW0067 - BALBIRNIE MILL