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| BU Number | BU0061 |
|---|---|
| Village | Kalliana |
| Related BUs | BU0060 BU0068 BU0071 BU0064 BU0123 |
| Easting | 490430.00 |
| Northing | 3874535.00 |
| Elevation | 521 |
| BU Summary | Water mill, Kalliana; cotton mill. Penstock irregular coursed river boulders with tile chinking. Turbine room below. Dated to 1947 at latest. |
| Location | On side road from Galata to Kalliana. |
| Vegetation | beans, fruit trees, citrus trees, poplar trees, pine. |
| Access | Public road towards village center borders north. According to oral accounts, it was main Troodos-Evrichou colonial road. |
| Levels | Multiple |
| Habitable | No |
| Occupied | No |
| Stability | V |
| Foundation | irregular coursed basalt |
| Walls | solid brick with large limestone ashlar corner stones |
| Building Type | Water mill |
| Structure Type | cotton mill and havrika |
| Current Use | Abandoned |
| Past Use | cotton mill |
| Structure Name | \'O Mylos tou Spyrou', or 'Havrikas tou Spyrou' (ie, Spyros's mill, or Spyros's factory). |
| Special Features | Dressed ashlar carved right door jamb. Brick fireplace, humped bridges in front of door of mill store-room, arched ashlar vaulted outflow. |
| Moderations/Alterations | Koftousa leading to penstock now cemented, penstock disused, mill in ruins, house does not exist. Roof of porch has been renewed with odd wood rafters and corrugated sheeting. Front lime hood of fireplace is missing. |
| Description | The first cotton mill in the area, now a ruin. Became disused by 1947, according to oral accounts when newer cotton and grain mill was built by Myltiades Mylonas just north of this mill, on the other side of the Evrykhou-Troodos road (BU0060). Situated at the top of 3 terraces, and mill house was on second while turbine room was at the lowest (third). Koftousa situated on upper level branching east off main water channel at a right angle, leading into earth filled, disused penstock at same level, along short leat (about 3m). Penstock of irregular river boulders and tile chinking. Main water channel flow continues northward for about 4m to bifurcate distribution node (BU0071) with waterfall outflow of eastermost fork and overhead to leat of Mylonas mill on the westernmost fork. Waterfall of channel outflow drops about 4.5m in height to the second terrace-level down and flows into earth and stone walled channel which flows in front of remains of mill house on lower terrace. The penstock (koudouka) is 2.9X2.50m and 1.20m high, with a round vaulted outflow (with dressed ashlar limestone quoins) is set under a terrace and visible on the east-facing terrace wall, 4m lower. The water chute of the penstock thus appears to be 6.20m high while the round vault is about 4 m. long, from penstock to outflow, under the terrace and about 2m high. The mill house was L-shaped, only the north porch (approx. 5 X 4m) surviving. The porch leans against the north wall of the penstock and has an opening the full width of the room facing north. The foundations are of four irregular courses of basalt and river boulders with basalt chinking, with 17 rows of baked solid bricks (east facade). Two more rows have been added to support irregular wooden beams and corrugated roofing. The interior of the porch has been subdivided by nailing old hand-hewn wooden planks 0.28 X 0.04-5 cm thick along the middle of the room onto old doors. Inside the porch is a brick firepace (niskia) with rectangular niches (thyroudes) symmetrically placed high above. Next to the fireplace is a drystone low wall and a cemented water trough. A pithari is placed on its side and used as a dog kennel. Water flow of main channel flows alongside front of porch. Access to porch and access to where mill house used to be is made over water channel on two humped bridges of dressed limestone ashlar quoins set into basalt stone supporting walls, topped with earth. Photos in personal archive. Photos in private archive.TAESP 2002 Photos by Chris.This apears to be the mill referred to by Nichols in 1901 the mill of Papa Milona, where the channel had to be carried over the new road on an arch.Detailed sketch by Sevina on file. |
| Ownership | Greek Cypriot |
| Owner | Spyros Hadjivangellis (died) |
| Date | until 1947 |
| Period 1100 | No |
| Period 1601 | No |
| Period 1701 | No |
| Period 1801 | No |
| Period 1851 | No |
| Period 1901 | Yes |
| Period 1951 | No |
| Oral Information | Mill belonged to the father of Mrs. Eirene Damianou from Kalyana, lives across the street. Andreas, husband carpenter. Mrs. Eirene remembers the owners placing a wooden raft over the water canal at the eastermost boundary and sitting on it in the afternoons in the shade of the trees, with the water flowing underneath. The house on the upper level was never completed 'en to eportisan', ie no doors or windows were put in, meaning it was never finished. Gypsies would camp in the field across (now site of Mr. Andreas's carpentry shop). Mill termed as 'havrikas' by Mrs Eirene (tel. 922 483). (O harikas fkallei pampatchi). |
| Recorded By | SEZ |
| Entered By | SEZ |
| Entered Date | 29/7/2001 00:00:00 |