Flax Mill

Derry City and Strabane, Northern Ireland

The record

Designation: Record only (not listed)
Grade: Record Only
Type: No type recorded
Address: Flax Mill, Raspberry Hill TD
Council: Derry City and Strabane
Country: Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 54.88983, -7.26796
Date of survey: 24 July 2014
HB reference: HB01/02/031

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A former flax mill, now demolished and replaced with a modern split-level dwelling. The iron waterwheel and part of the west gable remains.

The First Survey card records:

A small rubble greystone building with brick dressings and slated roof. There is an iron mill wheel on the west gable. The bridge of similar material has roughly dressed voissurs to the semi-circular arch. Copings are of vertical stones rendered on top. River is the Cloghagh Burn.

Date of visit: 16.05.1972

Historical information

N/A

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A former flax mill, now mostly demolished and replaced with a modern split-level dwelling. The iron waterwheel and part of the west gable remains.

General comments

Partial survey only - A former flax mill, now mostly demolished and replaced with a modern split-level dwelling. The iron waterwheel and part of the west gable remains.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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