South-Isle Mill
The South-Isle Mill is the only lived in building in the Abgathe District apart from the Great Temple of Gathe. It was established as a reward to an ancestor of the current owner, and is passed down the family. Should they move out, the mill must be removed.
Purpose / Function
Grinding Mill
Architecture
The Mill has a wheel that is 5m across and which barely turns at high-tide, but turns ever more rapidly as the tide goes out downstream. Only the wheel is in the water, the entire rest of the building is perched, precariously, on the South Islet - barely more than a rock 20m long (15m of which is taken up with the Gathe Bridge and a wagon-porch) and just 5m wide. The first floor is built on a cantelever, and which means that the floor overhangs the river on three sides and is propped over the wagon-porch on the fourth.
History
"The Miller" (as he was later known) was granted permission to build a mill on the south islet of the Gathe Bridge for "Services rendered to the Great Temple of Gathe". Tenure was set for life and the life of his descendants, and was continued provided his family remained resident on the isle each night. The current millers are now the fifth generation to operate the mill.
Political Importance
"The Miller of the South Isle" is, as the only non-religious landholder in the Abgathe District, also an appointed Warden on the Corporation of Gathetoken
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