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FIRST MILLS ON LJUTA Until the 16th Century, mills, as well as houses, were made of wood, but the government of Dubrovnik encouraged the construction of houses using the dry stone technique. It is, therefore, assumed that houses and mills started to be replaced with stone work in the 16th Century. Although a two-mill house in Ljuta was in existance back in 1496, the houses initially consisted of only one room with one mill. Later, wealthy millers started expanding their mills by adding eaves for unloading of wheat and loading of flour. Due to the configuration of the ground, some mills could not expand, so the mills on the River Ljuta consist of four major types: houses with one mill, houses "without" and "with" eaves, and houses with two mills "without" and "with" eaves for the working animals. At the beginning of the 19th Century, all mills had a gable roof covered with roof-tiles or stone slabs (which can be seen today at Taraš’ mill). Later, by the beginning of the 20th Century, most of the mills were built with one-sided roofs, allowing for the building of an annex on the northern side. Quite interesting is a record by Vitelleschi from 1827 stating that the Dubrovnk mills "are still characterized by a primitive construction with a properler mounted on the paddles. They require a strong waterfall and consume a lot of water. Only mills on the Ombla River have a mill-wheel placed perpendicularly on the paddles, the source being low." Regardless of how right Vitelleschi was, the mills on Ljuta have kept the horizontally set propellers up to the present day.
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PRVI MLINOVI NA LJUTOJ Do 16. st. mlinovi se, kao i kuće grade od drva, no dubrovačka vlast potiče gradnju kuća u suhozidu te se pretpostavlja da u 16. stoljeću kuće i mlinove od drva zamjenjuju za kamene. Iako već 1496. potvrđeno je postojanje kuće s dva mlina na Ljutoj u početku kuće uglavnom imaju jednu prostoriju s jednim mlinom. Kasnije, imućniji mlinari dodatno proširuju svoje mlinove s natkrivenim prostorom za istovar žita i utovar brašna. Obzirom na konfiguraciju terena neki se mlinovi nisu mogli širiti tako da na Ljutoj imamo sva četiri tipa mlina: kuće s jednim mlinom "bez" i "sa" natkrivenim dijelom i kuće s dva mlina "bez" i "sa" natkrivenim dijelom za tovarne životinje. U početku 19. stoljeća svi mlinovi imaju dvostrešni krov pokriven kupama ili kamenim pločama (danas se mogu vidjeti na Taraševom mlinu). Kasnije, do početka 20. st. većina krovova postaju jednostrešna, tako da je sjeverna strana mlina dograđivana. Zatim, zanimljiv je zapis Vitelleschia iz 1827. godine gdje navodi kako dubrovačke mlinove “još odlikuje primitivna gradnja s kolom postavljenim vodoravno na lopatice. Potreban je snažan slap i troše dosta vode. Samo mlinovi na rijeci Ombli imaju kolo postavljeno okomito na lopatice jer je izvor nizak.“ Bez obzira koliko je Vitelleschi bio u pravu, mlinovi na Ljutoj zadrže horizontalno postavljeno kolo do danas.