View from S showing water wheel cover and lade by-pass.

Description View from S showing water wheel cover and lade by-pass.

Date 2/2/1993

Catalogue Number C 3910

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 749604

Scope and Content Barry Mill, Angus, from south Barry Mill dates from the late 18th century, and consists of a three-storeyed rubble main building with waterwheel and semicircular drying kiln attached. The mill was rebuilt in 1814 after a fire, and produced oatmeal commercially until the lade was damaged in 1982. It is now owned by The National Trust for Scotland, and is restored to working condition for milling demonstrations. This shows the mill with its mill lade approaching the waterwheel (which is housed in the small brick extension on the right. Water which is not required for powering the mill is being allowed to flow down the lade bypass. The walls of the mill are built from stone rubble, and the roofs covered by local slates. Barry Mill was the last working watermill in Angus, and produced oatmeal, once a staple food in Scotland. Due to hygiene regulations the mill now produces meal for use as animal food only. Most oatmeal is now produced in large commercial mills, leaving very few watermills in operation. Most of these supplement their income by allowing visitors to view the workings of the mill. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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