Bate Mill (disused watermill)

Bate Mill is a disused watermill dating from the 18th century, with additions and alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of English garden wall bond brick and has a stone slate roof, standing two storeys high.

The front of the mill features two pilaster buttresses that divide the façade into three bays. The left two bays and the buttresses are made of late 19th or 20th-century brick, with three stretcher courses between header courses. The right bay is built of late 18th or early 19th-century brick, displaying four, five, and six stretcher courses between header courses. The openings to the mill leat are found in the first and second bays from the left, featuring timber and stone lintels and vertical iron bars on the right-hand opening. There is a segmental-arched three-light casement window at ground level in the second bay, with flat-headed similar windows on the first floor in the first and second bays.

On the right gable end, there is a segmental-arched double door at ground level, with a loft above that has a blocked window next to the timber door and a pulley at the gable apex. The left gable end has a staircase with stone treads leading to a first-floor doorway, which has a stone lintel, hinge, and latch dressings, along with a 20th-century half-glazed door. There is also a ground floor doorway to the left of the staircase, featuring a stone lintel. Both gables have projecting verges with bargeboards.

At the rear, there is a central outshot with a catslide roof, a stone base, and a ground floor window. Above a corrugated-iron lean-to in the angle, there is a first-floor three-light window to the left. To the right, three stone leat channels with segmental-arched heads and short stone walls lead to the tail race.

The interior has not been inspected, but an iron-framed waterwheel is visible through the leat openings.