33034: REEF, LEWIS – MILL (Undated)

Summary:

MILL (Undated)
Horizontal water mill

Location:

NB 1153 3509

Full description:

NB13NW 11 1153 3509

(With NB13NW 12) Corn Mills
OS 6″map, Island of Lewis, Ross-shire, 1st ed. (1854), sheet 17.

Reduced to a pile of rubble though its basic shape can be seen. This is a very small mill, 4m by 3m externally. The lade comes to the centre of the ‘building’.
Visited by G Douglas, SIAS, 6 July 1984.

References:

Burgess, Christopher & Church, Michael. 1997. 2 volumes, surveyed 1996, covering the 100m above the high tide line, and the intertidal zone. Coastal Erosion Assessment, Lewis. A Report for Historic Scotland.

Acknowledgement:

Information provided by Western Isles Council Sites & Monuments Record, January 2006.