For Sale €410000
The Mill
This is currently a small saircase to all floors. The mill building is built out of local stone and has 2 strong steel beams in each floor and large wooden beams. The floorboards all need replacing and the roof and windows and roof slates need to be replaced with insulation.. We have architect's plans for our un-started mill renovation which we will give to the buyers.
Mill Ground Floor
The mills ground floor has windows looking out over the river and bridge and 3 doors. Some interesting mill workings are left . Currently there is a large quantity of wooden planks and beams sawn from 2 large oak trees damaged in a storm in 2019. These are worth a few thousand euros and are included in the sale. The original stairs are in one corner.
Mill 1st Floor
The 1st and 2rd floors are large loft-like open spaces with high ceilings and windows facing the river. We planned to add 3 large bedrooms to each of these floors and some shower rooms.
Mill 2nd Floor
Mill 3rd Floor
The top two floors (3rd and 4th floors) are large with lots of windows looking up and down the valley. These floors are very light and airy. The huge mezzanine covers %50 of the space and leaves very high ceiling heights. On the left are the original stairs to the mezzanine. This space is ideal for many uses from art studios, more living space, home offices, workshops, etc.
Mill 4th Floor the Mezzanine
Mill Side View
Mill Front View
Mill Out Building
Behind the Mill is a large attached space (currently with no roof) which we planned to use as either a 4th house or workshop. We had a planning in place to make this into a 2 bed house, now lapsed.
The Mill Cottage
Kitchen left hand side. Large Living room on the right hand side, with 3 bedrooms & bathroom above
The mill cottage was originally two cottages which we connected into one house with the left hand one becoming a large kitchen with mezzanine and Esse wood fired cookstove in the large fireplace. The right hand cottage was remodelled by joining the two downstairs rooms and passageway into one large family room and adding slate flagstones (with insulation under) to the whole ground floor. We rewired and replumbed the whole house (we are connected to mains electricity and water). Installed a Morse wood stove in the large granite fireplace in the family room. We created 3 bedrooms and a bathroom on the 1st and 2nd floors with 5 new Velux windows. We added new shutters and had two hand made oak doors made by a local artisan for the living room and kitchen entries. We replaced the slate roofs with new wood and slate adding insulation. We installed an extra large waste water system to the right hand side for use when the mill, and stables have been converted to living spaces.
Mill cottage looking from the garden
Kitchen with Esse wood cookstove
Kitchen Mezzanine
Family Room Granit Fireplace with Morse Woodstove
Kitchen during the renovation in 2011
Kitchen during the renovation
Family Room during the renovation
Family Room during the renovation
Esse Cookstove
Stairs to 1st floor
Fireplace in one of the bedrooms
Stairs to 2nd floor
2nd floor bedroom
The Barn
The oldest building at Pont Movan Mill
This is the oldest building on the site and has two spaces and 4 doorways facing south. We replaced the roof. We use the barn for storing garden equipment and bicycles and a large amount of dry stacked firewood which we use to heat the mill cottage when we visit in the winter. The long barn roof faces south and would be ideal to add solar panels to generate electricity for use by the other buildings.
The Barn used as our wood store
The Barn in relation to the other buildings
Shows the BARN, stables, the end of the cottage, and the wall to the mill. The two large oaks felled after damaged in 2019 storm now mostly boards and firewood. Photo taken from a window on the fourth floor of the mill. Also shows some of our forest behind the buildings.
The stables
The stables was damaged by a large oak tree falling in 2019 (one of two now swan into oak boards and stacked in the mill). There was a large living space above the stables with a fireplace. Stable stalls on the ground with stone cobbles and a tack room at the far left end. Could be rebuilt as stables or converted into a 2 or 3 bed cottage with the living space on the 1st floor and bedrooms and shower room on the ground floor dependent on planning consent.
Stables with old well in front
The well was also damaged by the falling oak tree
The Garden
An old phot of the garden behind the mill after we planted fruit trees
The Forest
Behind the mill house, stables ,barn and up river is a forested area made up mostly of oak trees. This continues up to the bordering farm land and connects to our triangular south facing field to the right of the properties entrance. The field is currently re-wilding itself. In the summer before the 2019 storm
Showing some of the island the winter
The River
View from a window in the mill over the river and bridge
Our left hand boundary is the river L Ellez. We own the land in to the middle of the river. The river has trout and a fishing license is available from the local mares office. The river has sweet smelling peaty coloured water. Our kids spent a lot of time playing in the river when they were younger.
View from the bridge
Under the bridge
Up stream from the mill
Land Boundary (Approximate)
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