More information : Remains of stone-built farm and mill buildings situated on the south east side of Codsend Moor. The site is approached from the east alonga former road, now a track, from the hamlet of Codsend. A main group of buildings and two other building are visible as ruins in various states of decay. Are are clearly discernible. "A" SS 8816 4012. The main group; consisting of a long range alongside the track on its south side, with another range heading south from its west end, making an L-shape. In the angle of the L is an enclosed yard with a small building at its east corner (see sketch plan). The mill machinery was situated in the west range alongside a stream. Water power was provided by two streams draining due south and south east off Codsend Moor, augmented by an artificial leat taken off the River Quarme 700 metres west at around SS 8746 4007. The leat joined the south east flowing stream at SS 8807 4018 and is still visible, asa silted channel with upcast bank on the downslope, for much of its course. AT SS 8813 4015 the streams joined and just below the confluence are the remains of a small holding pond which abuts the trackway on the south. A headrace culverted under the trackway is visible leading south east towards the west range and there is also a side channel leading off it west to the stream; presumably a regulatoror divestor of flow. The headrace leads into a small building which housed an overshot or high breast-shot wheel, part of the wheel pit isvisible though now largely filled with rubble. The wheel dimensions are estimated at c. 4 metres maximum diameter and 1 metre width acrossthe buckets. The covering building appears to be an after-thought to the main west range. Immediately east of the wheel room is another small room with the remains of a wooden shaft and a fragment of millstone. The tail race is culverted underground and emerges at SS 8814 4010 on the edge of an artificial platform. From here water dropped back to the stream. "B" SS 8018 4014. On the north side of the trackway is a stone-built barn entered through a waggon-door with a brick faced arch over. Its west gable remains 3.5 metres high. A dog kennel has been built into the south wall of its west end. "C" SS 8021 4010. On the south side of the trackway is a small building, possibly a cottage, with two small yards or gardens adjacent. (10)
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