Sebay Mill

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 08/12/1971 Local Authority Orkney Islands Planning Authority Orkney Islands Parish St Andrews And Deerness NGR HY 51554 04672 Coordinates 351554, 1004672 — Circa 1854. 2 1/2 storey, 4-bay L-plan near-symmetrical mill with (later?) 2-storey lean-to addition to internal angle at rear. Roughly coursed rubble. Block-finialled gables; attic windows set close under eaves. S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: large timber sliding door at ground in bay to left of centre; boarded door at 1st floor; mall window to attic above. Window at each floor in each bay to right. Window at each floor in bay to left. W (SIDE) ELEVATION: window at ground and attic in bay to left. Boarded door, set to left, at ground in gabled bay to right; window to gablehead above. N (REAR) ELEVATION: 4-bay elevation, grouped 2-2. Window at ground with small window at 1st floor above in recessed lean-to block to left. Window at ground in each bay to right; gablehead window at above. E (SIDE) ELEVATION: window at 1st floor with attic opening above in gabled bay to left. Window at each floor in lean-to bay to right. Timber-framed windows (some blocked). Purple slate roof; stone ridge; stone skews. INTERIOR: not seen, 1998. — No longer in use. Archives reveal plans for a new mill at Sebay, dated 11th July, 1854 and signed by A W Gold ( for the Earl of Zetland) and John Stewart and William Cromarty as tennants. The two pairs of stones were driven by an overshot wheel fed by a mill dam about 1/4 mile away with an engine for the dry season; both the wheel and the machinery are now gone. In the late 1920's the miller was Mr Murdoch from Aberdeen, followed by John Marwick; Graham Bews took over the mill in the 1940's.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.