Aberdeen City HER - NJ90NW0076 - GILCOMSTON MILL

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Primary ReferenceNJ90NW0076
NameGILCOMSTON MILL
NRHE Card No.NJ90NW210
NRHE Numlink 20120
HES SM No.
HES LB No.
Site Form Documentary Record Only
Site Condition Destroyed
Details Site of meal mills, built in the 18th - 19th Centuries and demolished in the 1980s. The works was two-storey with a basement, comprising a 9-bay range with a single kiln and a three-storey with attic 5 by 6-bay block of later date. There were also two 2-storey store blocks. The mill was originally water powered, later electrically driven. The OS 1st edition map depicts a coffee roasting and grinding works here; they are annotated as corn mills on the OS 25in map published 1924.
Last Update26/01/2018
Updated Bycpalmer
CompilerACU
Date of Compilation13/09/2017

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Monument Type 1Monument Type 2Monument Type 3OrderProbability
MILLSCORNSITE OFA100
KILNS SITE OFB100
STOREHOUSES SITE OFC100