Tower Mill Immediately To East Of Junction With Millfield Road

Tower mill, built in the early 19th century, is located immediately to the east of the junction with Millfield Road. It is constructed of tarred red brick and features a five-storey, truncated cone shape. The south side has two semicircular stone steps leading to a boarded door. Above this door, there are boarded double doors with a stone ledge and wooden lintel. At the first-floor level, putlog holes indicate the position of a jettied walkway around the tower. The second floor has an unglazed, segmentally-arched window, and there is another similar window on the third floor, positioned to the right. A cogged band runs along the parapet wall, which is now topped by a brick water tank. On the right side, there are blocked segmentally-arched doors beneath windows on each floor, while the left side has windows on all four floors. The interior has not been inspected. This mill is said to have been built in 1815 and is known as Oates Mill, according to M. Hobson's pamphlet, "Some notes on Old Thorne," published by the Doncaster Library Service in 1985.