Anstruther Easter, Dreel Burn Mill | Canmore

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Mill (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Anstruther Easter, Dreel Burn Mill

Classification Mill (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Anstruther Easter, High Street, Old Corn Mill

Canmore ID 96623

Site Number NO50SE 63

NGR NO 56383 03563

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/96623

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View of Dreel Burn and Mill buildings

View of Dreel Burn and Mill buildings

Anstruther Easter, Dreel Burn Mill
General View

View of Dreel Burn and Mill buildings

Remains of lade and sluice gate from north west

General view from west

General view from east

General view of Dreel Burn Mill, Anstruther Easter.

View of Dreel Burn Mill and rear of buildings on west side of Elizabeth Place.

Anstruther Wester.
Rear view of 2 - 28 High Street with Dreel Burn Mill in distance.

North east gable and mill yard

General view from west

View of approach to Old Corn Mill, Anstruther Easter.

First-floor, Millstones

Ground-floor, remains of gear cupboard and upright shaft

North east gable, detail of doorway and panel

General view of facade

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Administrative Areas

Council Fife
Parish Anstruther Easter
Former Region Fife
Former District North East Fife
Former County Fife

Archaeology Notes

NO50SE 63 563 035

(Location cited as NO 563 035). Dreel Burn Mill, 18th to 19th century. A four-storey, three-bay rubble main block with crow-stepped gables. There is a pantile-roofed two-storey kiln and the ruins of 2 two-storey and one single-storey rubble structures, each of them a lean-to. Only the axle survives of a large overshot wheel. Becoming ruinous.

J R Hume 1976.

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Photographic Survey (July 1963)

Photographic survey of buildings in Anstruther Easter, Fife, by the Ministry of Work/Scottish National Buildings Record in July 1963.

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