Architecture Notes

Event ID 677763

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/677763

NS69SW 8 6307 9333

see also archaeology notes.

New Mill, Kippen, c. 1800

Description: ?2 storey stone building, built predominantly of reddish sandstone. Waterwheel on W end of mill.

Condition: In ruins; W wall stands complete but only wall bases remain of other walls; wheelshaft in situ; otherwise gutted.

Wheel: Apparently external wheel on the W end of mill; presumably overshot, approximately 13 feet [in diameter] by 3 feet 6 inches [in width]. Iron wheelshaft in situ.

Danger of Damage/Demolition: Likely to collapse.

Drive System: No evidence other than that drive was by pit-wheel.

Mill Machinery: No evidence.

Remarks: No millstones or other evidence found.

Visited and photographed by Alan Stoyel, Doune, Perthshire, Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings Wind and Watermill Section Watermill Record Card (copy), 2 October 1970.

Information from NMRS MS/749/109.