Grasslees Mill (Hepple)
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Description
NY 953978: The remains of a small 18th century watermill complex was found at Grasslees (NY 95429789). The complex consisted of a mill, corn drying building and a walled enclosure. The mill race was fed from a small spring to the north and by a mill race from a large pond to the west. Situated in the west wall of the enclosure is a well-preserved corn drying kiln.....The kiln was built as a round structure with a rectangular service building butting against it, (see photograph [1952]). Built of roughly dressed stone in irregular courses. The overall height of the kiln would have been at least 8ft. 'Girslees miln' is referred to in the Elsdon Parish Register as early as 1687 and is shown on the Elsdon common division of 1731. The mill and its ancillary features seems to have been complete when surveyed by the Ordnance Survey c.1863. (4) Survey of the site commissioned by the National Park Authority in 1994. Earliest documentary reference to a mill here is in 1618 when the 'Mill of Grisleays' was held by Alan and Thomas Wanlass. The mill appears to have been abandoned in the 19th century. The remains visible today are earthworks of the buildings with some stone walls still protruding through the turf. The wheel pit collapsed after the survey, in winter 1994, but originally measured c.1m wide by 6m long. The adjacent mill building measures 19m long and is subdivided into four rooms. A pile of four intact millstones remains in the western end of the building. The corn drying kiln has been dismantled since it was recorded in 1952 ....and used for building stone; it now survives as a grass covered ring bank 5.5m external diameter..... -
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Keys to the Past (Durham & Northumbria County Councils) -
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Further information
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