NTS Documentary Reference Event

Date 5 February 2013 - 5 February 2013

Event ID 933884

Category Documentary Reference

Type Reference

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/933884

Barry Mill is a three-storey sandstone rubble building consisting of basement (meal floor), ground floor (milling or stone floor) and attic (hopper or bin floor), and with an Angus stone slate roof. The basic plan is L-shaped with a circular kiln to the north, enclosed water-wheel to the south and a single-storey lean to extension to the west. The present building dates to 1814, after the previous iteration was destroyed by a fire.

The circular kiln 4.4m in diameter represents a development in design from the separate kiln (such as at Preston Mill, East Lothian). It originally stood to the same height as the mill but was lowered in 1940 giving the roofline a stepped profile.

The original stone-built, lean-to annexe built to the rear of the mill was extended around 1930 in order to accommodate more grain.

The overshoot wheel is 4.7m in diameter and built of iron & wood. It consists of 30 wooden buckets each 0.92m wide. Its lightweight construction suggests a fairly modern date but it uses the original axle. It is enclosed within a lean-to wheel-house.

A conservation programme was initiated in the late 1980s which included restoring stonework, replacing the kiln floor and wheel housing, and re-roofing with Angus stone slate. The machinery inside the mill was also completely restored.

(Information from NTS, February 2013)

Information from NTS