History

The mill was built around 1840 as a manor farm mill of the Cegłów property. Around 1910 it was purchased by Tadeusz Jankowski, who subjected it to thorough remodelling in 1920 - an undershot water wheel was reinforced with a combustion engine. Its milling capacity amounted to 12 tons per day; it served the villages within the radius of 15 km. All types of wholemeal and wheat flour as well as grain for middlings were ground. Payment in kind was charged. The mill was used until the mid-1950s. Currently, it is owned by heirs of T. Jankowski.

Description

The mill is located in the northern part of the village, on the Piaseczna river, dammed-up with a concrete weir (with two outlets: working and idle) which forms a long mill pond.

The mill consists of two adjacent buildings: a wooden mill (former) and a brick engine house (from the 1920s). Both buildings are of a single-space structure and were erected on a rectangular floor plan. The wooden mill was built on a stone and cement foundation, in a log structure featuring bales with dovetail corner joints. It has ceilings of wooden bales and board floors. The roof truss is also wooden, in a rafter and collar structure. The gable roof is covered with galvanised sheet metal. The engine house is made of cement blocks, the walls are not plastered and the floors are made of cement. The roof truss is wooden and the shed roof is also covered with galvanised sheet metal. The mill’s body has a two-bay layout - formed by two cuboids: the taller one of the wooden mill and the lower one of the engine house. The facades are simple: the one of the wooden mill is not covered with weatherboards and has a colour of natural wood, while the one of the engine house has not been plastered.

Internal devices related to the water drive have not survived. However, the rollers (along with hoppers) and the bucket silo have remained unchanged. Next to them, above the line shaft, there are deposits of millstones. A sheller is located at the western wall; next to it there are boxes, silos and drainage pipes. The engine house’s equipment includes: a combustion engine of 25 HP, the main line shaft and the upper line shaft.

The building can only be viewed from the outside. It has been preserved in a satisfactory condition.

Author of the note Jerzy Szałygin, National Institute of Cultural Heritage, Regional Branch in Warsaw 14-12-2017

Bibliography

• Record sheet of monuments of architecture: Młyn wodny, prepared by Iza Dąbrowska, Siedlce 1997.
• Zabytki architektury i budownictwa w Polsce, woj. siedleckie, Warsaw 1988, p. 16.