Description

SX 99 NE BROADCLYST BROADCLYST

5/69 Clyston Mill and
- attached Miller's House

- II

Water mill with house attached. Late C18. Red sandstone rubble. The mill (to the
left) of 3 storeys with half-hipped slate roof, the house of 2 storeys, its slate
roof half-hipped to right-hand end.
Mill: 3 window range, almost all the window openings boarded, the second-floor,
right-hand window partly blocked. The undershot iron wheel with timber paddles
largely intact under weather-boarded shelter, 2 storeys high. Internal floors and
divisions survive complete, but some of the mill gear removed to Cotehele, Cornwall.
House: 5 window range, all windows under limestone window arches with volcanic trap
keystones. Casement windows, timber : 4 at ground level of 2 lights, 15 panes to
each light, those at 1st floor level of 2 and 3 lights. All panes leaded, many of
those above with original C18 catches. Rear, of sandstone, with 2 stacks and a C20
brick extension; three 2-light casement windows. Clyston Mill is probably on the
site of the mill recorded in Domesday Book. The earliest recorded mention of
Broadclyst is as Gliston or Cliston.

Listing NGR: SX9805997267

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26464038

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