Publication Account
Date 1996
Event ID 1016299
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1016299
This elegant vertical-wheeled mill has been restored and adapted very successfully as a restaurant and craft shop, the use of natural wood and bare stone retaining an impression internally of the original three-storey mill. The external appearance is excellently preserved with an eightspoke iron water-wheel, more than 4m in diameter, with wooden buckets, and an unusual stone aqueduct carrying the water over the wheel. The wheel drove three pairs of millstones on the first floor, and the grain was stored in the top floor after having been dried in a kiln at the far end of the building. With the prehistoric tomb of Maes Howe across the road, this is a very attractive place to linger on a tour of Orkney's mainland monuments.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Orkney’, (1996).
