Loftus Mill And Millhouse With Mill Race Adjoining.

Loftus Mill and the adjoining millhouse, along with the mill race, is a watermill built in the mid-18th century, with the millhouse dating from the late 18th century and incorporating parts of an older structure. This site was originally home to a medieval mill. The left section of the mill is now part of the house. The building features chevron-tooled dressed sandstone and a coursed random drystone retaining wall for the mill race. The roofs are covered with renewed clay pantiles.

The mill and house are two storeys high, with the house having two windows. It has a central six-panel door with a narrow overlight that includes glazing bars. On the ground floor, there are mid to late 20th-century segmental-plan bay windows supported by brackets, while the first floor features 24-pane horizontal sash windows with painted sills. The mill has two doorways with keyed lintels, which now contain late 20th-century casement windows on the left side. There is a similar window on the first floor and a loft door to the right above a ground-floor window opening.

To the right of the mill, the retaining wall of the race includes a flight of eleven steps and a stone-lined water channel, which fed the mill wheel through an opening on the first floor. The left end of the mill has block kneelers and a stack, with ridge and gable copings. There is a blocked fire window in the older left return of the house, along with two garret lights in the gable. A continuous single-storey outshut is attached to the rear of the house.

Inside, the house retains beamed ceilings on the ground floor. The machinery has been removed from the left part of the mill, while the right part contains some early to mid-19th-century timber and cast iron machinery, as well as a late 19th-century wheel. The stables and outbuildings at the rear are not of special interest. The millhouse is included for its group value.