Only one in 10 homes has what the police regard as good security arrangements—mortice locks on doors and window locks on at least downstairs windows.
For example, the fitting of a decent mortice lock to a door might cost as little as £18.
There is a cast iron mortice wheel with 66 cogs drives a flour dresser.
The ends of these rafters were sharpened to fit into mortice holes at either end of crossbeam.
Mortice locks have historically, and still commonly do, use lever locks as a mechanism.
The original structure was built about 1877, and is a mortice and tenon, hand hewn post and beam structure.
The mill has a log frame and uses mortice and tenon construction.
The original woodwork, including a pegged mortice-and-tenon-joined staircase handrail, is intact.
