| Summary: | Howards Mill or Colley Lake, Kings Nympton. The overshot waterwheel is constructed of cast iron with wooden buckets and placed on the outside of the building. It is 17 feet in diameter by 3 feet 6ins wide. On the periphery of this wheel there are iron cogs which engage a spindle that drives a circular saw. The building is constructed of stone and timber. It has single and double pantiles on the roof, which is sagging in the centre, and oak shingles to the gable. It was formerly used for crushing stone for the park estate roads. |
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