Description

DUNSFORD
SX 88 NW

6/15 Mill buildlng at Iron Mills
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GV II

Mill building. Circa early C19 with C20 extension. Granite rubble with corrugated
iron and tile roof, gabled at ends.
Mill building with water wheel on the north side, facing the road. The iron and
timber undershot wheel is no longer in use but until 1937 powered trip hammers for a
tool-making industry.
Single storey. The building has proably been extended at the left (west) end, which
is rendered. The elm and iron wheel is in the centre with a doorway under a timber
lintel to the right.
Interior Roof trusses replaced circa early C20. Although the building is modest it
has considerable industrial archaeological importance: the tool-making industry at
Iron Mills is said to have been established in about 1820 and continued to use the
water wheel for power until circa 1937. 2 trip hammers, 1 late C19, 1 pre-first
World War, powered by electricity, are still in use at Iron Mill, sited in the C20
extension and are possibly the only trip hammers still in use in the country. There
are plans to restore the mill wheel to working order.

Listing NGR: SX8072688467

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26576896

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