View looking South-West at mill. Digital image of G 85052 PO.
SC 749659
Description View looking South-West at mill. Digital image of G 85052 PO.
Date 28/4/1984
Catalogue Number SC 749659
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of G 85052 PO
Scope and Content Achingale Mill, Highland, from north-west Achingale Mill was built in 1885, on the site of an earlier mill. The three-storeyed, L-plan mill is built from dressed flagstones with a flagstone roof, and features a drying kiln, two pairs of millstones, a threshing barn, an external sack-hoist and two overshot waterwheels. It closed in 1950. This shows the mill with its kiln on the left (with rooftop ventilators) and the main milling area on the right. The projecting structure with dormer roof is the sack hoist, which transferred grain between the first and second floors. Many rural miller's kept hens, and two hen coops can be seen against the wall of the kiln. The field boundary in front of the mill is edged with upright Caithness flagstones. These can be seen paving the streets of many towns and cities in Scotland, providing a hard-wearing floor surface of kitchens, as well as being used as a building material. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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