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| BU Number | BU0064 |
|---|---|
| Village | Tembria |
| Related BUs | BU0065 BU0060 BU0061 BU0123 |
| Easting | 490270.00 |
| Northing | 3875427.00 |
| Elevation | 508 |
| Source | GPS |
| Village Plan | Tembria III |
| Plot Village | 514.00 |
| BU Summary | Water mill, Tembria. Penstock and millhouse ruined. Construction is irregular courses of basalt. Wooden log may have been used as a chute. |
| Location | Rotsos hill, south of Pera Geitonia,Tembria |
| Vegetation | Almond trees,blackbery brammbles, barley |
| Access | dirt road |
| Length (m) | 12.00 |
| Width (m) | 1.20 |
| Height (m) | 3.00 |
| Levels | Multiple |
| Habitable | No |
| Occupied | No |
| Stability | IV |
| Foundation | Penstock & millhouse:irregular courses of basalt |
| Walls | penstock:basalt river boulders and limestone chinking |
| Exterior Plaster | white lime traces |
| Openings | arched limstone dressed outflow |
| Building Type | Water mill |
| Structure Type | water mill- stone construction |
| Current Use | abandoned |
| Past Use | corn grinding water mill |
| Structure Name | Mylos ston Rotso |
| Special Features | leat terminating in vertical plastered face. Part of penstock leat missing, possibly was built in some perishable material eg. wood. |
| Moderations/Alterations | Traces of fire. |
| Description | Ruined watermill. Ruined mill house, stone only outflow and traces of wooden sloping leat visible. Stone race is overgrown with brambles. water leads into it from left diversion of 'moirasia' the right hand side of which , according to Mr. Georgios the Neroforos, gives one 'gronthos' (fist-width) of water to Tembria. Water from here leads down to the triplewater diversion in Tembria-III (Pera Geitonia - BU 0065). The penstock abruptly stops at about 12 m in length, at a vertical smoothly plastered north face, leaving the canal exposed. A wooden trough might have been supported into the water channel and this would then have led to the turbine chamber under the millhouse. The remains of the mill house and outflow appear to be a further 11m or about one leat length to the north. The outflow is round arched on the face with dressed limestone quoins, 1.50m high and with a vaulted ceiling. Traces of the wooden leat may be present. A large piece of wood about 50 x 50 x 50 cm is embedded into the south face of the millhouse, slightly to the east of the race. A further piece of wood is found lying on its side, about 1 m long, in the space between the millhouse and the stone race. The millhouse foundation walls are irregularly coursed river boulders similar to the constructions at Mandres, and with similar basalt corner quoins on the building's edges. The millhouse is a single 'makrinari' type. The entry is not visible due to overgrowth of tall grass. To the east side of the leat there is a retaining drystone basalt wall about 1.5 m high. |
| Ownership | Greek Cypriot |
| Owner | 3 owners:Christos Papanikolaou psalmist,Georgios Demitriades,Loukas Demitriades |
| Period 1100 | No |
| Period 1601 | No |
| Period 1701 | No |
| Period 1801 | No |
| Period 1851 | Yes |
| Period 1901 | No |
| Period 1951 | No |
| Oral Information | Georgios Herodotou, Neroforos for Kaliana-Tembria. Polikseni Achilleos from Tembria, living in Limassol. Mrs. Polykseni's father was one of three owners. The second owner was Papanikolas who has the mill at BU0123. |
| Recorded By | SEZ |
| Recorded Date | 2/7/2001 00:00:00 |
| Entered By | SEZ |
| Entered Date | 29/7/2001 00:00:00 |