Description

SW 73 NW STITHIANS KENNAL VALE

2/263 Lower Kennal Vale Mill
(formerly listed as Lower Kennal
17.1.80 Vale Mill and Stonebuilt Mill leet
course)

GV II

Water mill for grinding grain. Circa mid C19. Granite rubble with granite
dressings. Scantle slate roof (partly replaced with corrugated asbestos) hipped at
the front end, gable ends at the rear. Louvered ventilator over the ridge.
Plan: Rectangular former grist mill with wheel-pit for former overshot wheel on the
right-hand side. Later C19 extensions on the left-hand side. Hub of waterwheel and
internal machinery intact. There is a large internal cast-iron gear wheel with
wooden zaps; this wheel drives a smaller cog at either end from which there are drive
shafts across the mill building (within an inaccessible basement) to drive a pair of
stones and other machinery near the front of the mill and to drive other machinery
including a grain cleaner behind. The original machinery is in situ but has been
added to in the later C19 and C20.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Simple unaltered elevations. Front has wide first floor
window opening. There are doorways into the left-hand side and a blocked doorway
into the rear: gable end of the rear left-hand extension. Original rear: gable end has
a ground floor window and loading doorways to the first floor and the attic.
Interior: Floors, roof structure and fittings survive. The floors are on several
levels. Part of the ground floor is a basement to house the axial drive shafts (see
plan). The attic floor is high up in the roof space. There is a very complex
arrangement of ductings, hoppers and both gear and belt driven machinery. Roof
structure has lapped dovetailed struts.

Listing NGR: SW7479837249

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26434875

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)