Higher Mill Museum

Higher Mill Museum is a woolen fulling mill built by the Turner family in 1789, which has since been extended and is now a working museum. The building is constructed of sandstone rubble with a stone slate roof and has a rectangular plan that is extended by one bay at the left end. There is a projecting porch near the right end and a parallel single-bay extension at the rear of the left end.

The mill stands three storeys high. The three-storey gabled porch features a low rounded archway, a three-light flush mullion window on the first floor, and a rectangular window above it, along with similar openings in the left side wall. On the ground floor to the left, there is an arched wagon door, three horizontal rectangular windows, and a single-storey forward extension that is linked to a 19th-century mill to the south. The upper two floors contain three three-light flush mullion windows each. To the right of the porch, a short wall has a window on each lower floor and a loading door on the second floor. The left return wall has two gables with four windows on each of the two intermediate levels.

At the rear, the ground floor is back-to-earth except for an archway leading to the waterwheel. The upper floors have four three-light flush mullion windows each, a loading door with a cantilevered stone sill at the upper level, and three additional windows. All windows have glazing bars, with most featuring very small panes.

Inside, the mill has a queen-post roof, wooden beams supported by stone corbels, and retains its waterwheel and fulling stocks in situ.