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LITTLE YORK, NJ Two stone mills, built close together and connected by a covered area which house the cast-iron turbines and the race, stand on a rise of land in Little York. The mill to the left was built c. 1815 as a linseed oil mill and is now a three bedroom cottage one and a half bath, with a large open floor plan and random width pumpkin pine flooring throughout the living room, dining room and kitchen space. The grist mill on the right was added in 1835 and has been used most recently as an antique shop. The mills sit on 2 plus/minus acres including two unused ponds and a 1/3 mile mill race. $499,000.
Still protected on the site are two millstones, a scale for weighing grain, and the essential components of the grinding process, grinding stones with hopper and swivel crane, cast-iron turbine, some of the drive shafts, gears, pulleys and a king wheel, which is almost ten feet in diameter. Other remnants of its historic past exist in the form of ledgers accounting for customers who delivered bushels of wheat, corn and rye and left with flour and cornmeal. The old mill is a fascinating place, with its deep well pit, its driving wheel, its large ten-foot wooden wheel that drove the upright shaft extending throughout the floors to the top of the mill, with its bevel gears taking off the power at each floor to run the millstones and the shafts with their wooden pulleys that ran the bolting reels. The mill was equipped with two runs of French burrs, 52 inches in diameter and 16 inches high. The wooden hoppers were 38 by 40 and 12 inches deep. The storage bins were on the third floor, also the hexagonal bolting reel, 24 inches in diameter and seven feet long. The metal buckets riveted to cloth or leather belting were three and one-half inches wide and four and one-half inches deep. All were spaced 16 or 17 inches apart. All of the floors throughout the grist mill are the original untouched wide plank flooring. Throughout both buildings there are exposed beams that show off the vintage post and beam construction of these magnificent buildings.
Behind the mill is a dam that holds back one of three mill ponds fed by a waterway branching off Hakihokake Creek.
The Little York Mills / Hoff-Van Syckel Mill, an 18th century Linseed Oil/Grist Mill located in Western New Jersey just 10 minutes from Exit 11 off Route 78, and 20 minutes from the Raritan Valley Line train at Annandale. This impressive structure is constructed of 2 ½ foot thick field stone coated in stucco with a grand exposed post and beam interior framework. This complex has a long history of multiple uses from a Linseed Mill, Grist Mill , Cider Mill, Art Studio and Gallery, to Antique Store and Private Residence. Nestled in the quiet Village of Little York and just west of the village center.
Renovate and live your dream!
Still protected on the site are two millstones, a scale for weighing grain, and the essential components of the grinding process, grinding stones with hopper and swivel crane, cast-iron turbine, some of the drive shafts, gears, pulleys and a king wheel, which is almost ten feet in diameter. Other remnants of its historic past exist in the form of ledgers accounting for customers who delivered bushels of wheat, corn and rye and left with flour and cornmeal. The old mill is a fascinating place, with its deep well pit, its driving wheel, its large ten-foot wooden wheel that drove the upright shaft extending throughout the floors to the top of the mill, with its bevel gears taking off the power at each floor to run the millstones and the shafts with their wooden pulleys that ran the bolting reels. The mill was equipped with two runs of French burrs, 52 inches in diameter and 16 inches high. The wooden hoppers were 38 by 40 and 12 inches deep. The storage bins were on the third floor, also the hexagonal bolting reel, 24 inches in diameter and seven feet long. The metal buckets riveted to cloth or leather belting were three and one-half inches wide and four and one-half inches deep. All were spaced 16 or 17 inches apart. All of the floors throughout the grist mill are the original untouched wide plank flooring. Throughout both buildings there are exposed beams that show off the vintage post and beam construction of these magnificent buildings.
Behind the mill is a dam that holds back one of three mill ponds fed by a waterway branching off Hakihokake Creek.
The Little York Mills / Hoff-Van Syckel Mill, an 18th century Linseed Oil/Grist Mill located in Western New Jersey just 10 minutes from Exit 11 off Route 78, and 20 minutes from the Raritan Valley Line train at Annandale. This impressive structure is constructed of 2 ½ foot thick field stone coated in stucco with a grand exposed post and beam interior framework. This complex has a long history of multiple uses from a Linseed Mill, Grist Mill , Cider Mill, Art Studio and Gallery, to Antique Store and Private Residence. Nestled in the quiet Village of Little York and just west of the village center.
Renovate and live your dream!