Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB06/07/008

Address :
Saw Mill Behind 25 Shanes Hill Road Kilwaughter Larne Co Antrim

Townland:
Rory's Glen

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Mill

Former Use
Mill

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
Yes

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Partially

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OS Map No:
70/14

IG Ref:
D3627 0070

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A conglomerate single-storey building of gabled blocks built of stone, with some rendered walling, and yellow brick dressings of 19th century appearance to openings on the south front. Slated roof. Lean-to additions in timber boarding to north side. Originally a flax mill, later a saw mill and now semi-derelict in condition, apparently not in use, and architecturally undistinguished. Setting: the building is situated in a very rural area, and stands on a low lying site next to a bend in the road a short distance downstream from a derelict corn mill.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Built c 1820s, according to OS Memoirs in 1835, when it was described as “thatched and of stone and lime, in very bad repair, single geared, 3 scutches and 3 wooden rollers. The machinery is propelled by a wooden breast wheel 13 feet in diameter by 2 feet buckets ... The house measures 24 by 18 feet outside.” Appears on OS map of 1832, marked as ‘Flax Mill’; appears in enlarged form by OS Map of 1930, still marked as ‘Flax Mill’. References - Primary Sources 1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 40. 2. OS Map 1930, Co Antrim 40. 3. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol 10: Parishes of County Antrim III (Belfast, 1991), pp 110 and 112. Secondary Sources 1. IHR 6961

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is a building of limited historical interest which is both architecturally undistinguished and now in a state of partial dereliction.

General Comments

Date of Survey

29 March 1998