Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey, University of Strathclyde

Date 21 October 1981

Event ID 615375

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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Mill of Voy has only one pair of millstones in a large building. The mill (oats and bere) was part of a group of buildings which included a blacksmith (post-1902), wheelwrights' and joiners' shops as well as a stable with a hay loft above (post-1902). One revolution of the mill wheel turned the millstones eight times.

There are the remains of a roof over the millstones. The stable is roofed and used as a fuel store for the cottage (HY21SE 71.01). The mill was in operation until the mid-1930s.

The low-breast shot waterwheel measures 3.05m in overall diameter by 1.06m in width. The sides are of cast-iron with wooden buckets. It operated with a drive bevel gear which had 102 wooden teeth. Only the side plates of the waterwheel survives.

RCAHMS MS/500/35/13