Sawmill Cottage

Sawmill Cottage is the third of our larger renovation projects just outside the village of Hawkshead. The cottage is an old corn mill built and owned by the monks of Furness Abbey. The monks used it for storing malt, parts of the original building still contain the drying plates for the corn. The property still has some of the original crooked beams, there is also a mill dam in the grounds. Although it's near completion we just wanted to show some of the final stages of the work that is going on.

Before and after of the basement

Here you can see the depth the floor in the basement needed to be dug out.

Fernando at work on the fireplace.











External walling.