Modern watermill.


The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a group of buildings together with the annotation, 'Corn Mill'.


The mill complex was of late 18th or early 19th century date. The buildings were ruinous by the 1960s and only part of the shell of the mill survives today. Waterpower was derived from a leat drawn off the Sulby river from a weir immediately downstream of Sulby Woollen Mill.


A second mill was housed at Staward farm itself, powered by water supplied along a second leat which ran from the corn mill 75m away to the SSW. The farm mill would have processed animal feed. The Staward farm complex was developed to encourage agricultural efficiency, with animal accommodation and storage aranged around a square courtyard. A datestone of 1842 is placed over the entrance.