Mill Race Walls And Sluice With Piers And Sluice Keepers Shelter Adjacent

The mill race walls and sluice, along with the sluice-keeper's shelter and adjacent piers, were likely built around 1840 for J. Annandale, serving the Lintzford paper mill. The mill race features walls made of large sandstone blocks, with sandstone steps on either side leading to the sluice. The sluice is equipped with renewed cast iron machinery, secured by a chain and hook bearing the founder's mark of Parsons. At the eastern end of the garden to the north of the mill race, there are two gritstone piers, each about 80 centimeters high, featuring top bands and domed coping. At the western end, next to the sluice and overlooking the River Derwent, stands a small one-storey shelter made of sandstone rubble. This shelter has one bay, a boarded door, and a monopitch boarded roof.