Background
- Listing: Grade A
- Date of building: Built Circa 1784
Web: www.knockandowoolmill.org.uk
The mill enjoyed a good level of prosperity over the years producing blankets, tweeds and knitting wools, but it was the outbreak of the First World War that saw trade boom when the Ministry Of Defence contracted them to make blankets. Business gradually declined thereafter and the croft cottage was abandoned in the 1920s with the mill shop closing in 1975.
Today there exists a cluster of collapsing tin roof buildings, a cast iron water wheel which has lost its paddles, a croft cottage and a Victorian farmhouse. The present owner of the mill still makes the tweeds for the estate workers of the local Knockando Estate, though activity at the mill is expected to cease entirely upon the owner's retirement. A grant has recently been received enabling a project planning process to begin.