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Description: | Situated at Mortimer's Cross are the standing, earthwork and buried remains of a working water mill and its associated water management system, and the earthwork and buried remains of a now vanished paper mill to the north. It also includes a series of quarries and their associated features along the eastern side of the mill leat. The present mill building dates from the 18th century, and occupies the site of an earlier paper mill. The present mill was owned by the Kevill-Davies family between 1785 and 1923, and produced paper at least until 1830. Sometime after this it was converted to a grain mill, and from around 1870 it continued grinding animal feed commercially until the 1940s. The present three-storeyed mill building is principally constructed of local Aymestrey limestone with a flag floor and slate roof. The wooden wheel with metal paddles is middle breast shot and the water supply is controlled by a penstock which can be operated from within the mill. It is scheduled as a monumnet and is listed Grade II. Some 35 metres north west of the mill building are the remains of a flood relief mechanism for the now vanished paper mill, which was situated 15 metres further south. Evidence for the mill building and wheel mechanism will survive here as buried features. To the east of the present mill building there are a succession of small post medieval quarries with the earthwork evidence for the locations of various temporary buildings associated with the quarry working. The present mill building was constructed from the stone quarried here. | Subjects: | Revetment Industrial Sluice Building Maritime Weir Leat Feed Mill Transport Mid Breastshot Wheel Limestone Quarry Flour Mill Watermill Paper Mill Wheel Pit Water Wheel Spoil Heap Water Supply And Drainage Tail Race | Source: | English Heritage - Viewfinder | Creator: | National Monuments Record | Identifier: | http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk... | Language: | en | Go to resource |
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