Arden Mill

Arden Mill is a historic building near Hawnby, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. A mill associated with St Andrew's Priory may have existed in 1189 was recorded in 1536; it may have been on the site of the current mill. The present building, a water-powered cornmill, may be late Mediaeval, but it was refurbished in the early 18th century. It was repaired and the machinery was altered around 1850 by the miller, William Megginson. The mill stopped working in 1912, but its machinery survives almost intact, and the building was grade II* listed in 2006. The mill was damaged by flooding in 2007; it has been partially repaired but is on the Heritage at Risk Register. The water-powered cotton mill is in stone with a pantile roof. There is a single storey and three bays, and the smoke bay of the former miller's house to the north. The southern bay contains the waterwheel in a pit, with a culverted tailrace to the east. In the roof are two cruck trusses, and the smoke bay contains an inglenook fireplace.