Mill Of Bandley
Saw Mill (Period Unassigned), Watermill (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Mill Of Bandley
Classification Saw Mill (Period Unassigned), Watermill (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 18062
Site Number NJ61NW 8
NGR NJ 61171 16748
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18062
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Alford
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Mill of Bandley, from 18th century. Attractive, subdued T-plan complex of differing dates, all rubble-built; block with skewputs and apex finial the earliest; kiln in piend-roofed part. Start-and-awe wheel. Mill of Bandley House, (?)19th century or earlier, very plain, rubble-built.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NJ61NW 8.00 61171 16748
NJ61NW 8.01 61182 16731 Millhouse
(Location cited as NJ 612 167). Part 18th century. A 2-storey building on a T plan, with a wooden sawmill extension. There is an 8-spoke, single-ring, low-breast paddlewheel, 2ft 4 1/2 ins (0.77m) wide by 11 ft 8 ins (3.55m) diameter. Now disused.
J R Hume 1977.
Largely single-storey and of rubble construction, part with skewputts and apex finial. The 18th century piend roofed portion contains a brick kiln. The start and awe wheel is in good condition with original conduits.
NMRS, MS/712/156.
NJ61NW 8.00 centred on watermill 6118 1675
NJ61NW 8.01 6116 1772 Mill of Bandley Building
This is a late 18th-19th century two-storeyed rubble-built (with slate roof) water-powered grain mill, with wing containing a later kiln, and with a wooden extension containing a sawmill. Both the grain mill and the saw mill were powered by single-ring start and awe low-breast water wheel (3.55m in diameter and 0.77min width, with 8 arms).
Visited by RCAHMS (MKO), 24 September 1997.