Tolethorpe Mill And Cottage Adjoining To East

Tolethorpe Mill and the adjoining cottage to the east are a watermill and attached cottage built in the late 18th century, with alterations and extensions made in the late 19th century and turbines added in the early 20th century. The buildings are constructed of coursed squared limestone and brick, featuring ashlar and brick dressings, and are topped with Collyweston stone slate roofs and three tall brick stacks.

The mill building is three storeys high, with the late 18th-century section slightly projecting over the mill-race. The windows are not regularly spaced and date mainly from the 19th century, except for one surviving late 18th-century two-light chamfered stone-mullioned window on the ground floor, located over the mill-race to the left of a cambered-headed entrance. There is a second entrance to the left of the projecting section, which is in a stone lean-to and features a Dutch door. The first-floor windows have cambered brick heads and cast-iron glazing bars, with fixed margin lights surrounding a lozenge-patterned louvre. The second floor has similar but smaller windows near the eaves.

Inside the mill, there are large wooden beams, some of which are reused, supporting the wooden floors. A brick baking oven is located on the ground floor. A room over the mill-race contains late 19th-century cast iron machinery, including a dynamo, pump, drive shaft gearing, line shafting, an electric switchboard, and a control panel. The first floor has a single set of grinding stones housed in wood, along with additional line shafting. The second floor features wooden storage bins within late 19th-century wooden queen post roof trusses.

The cottage is two storeys tall, with a central cambered-headed entrance, a 12-pane sash window to the left, and twin 12-pane sash windows above. It has a central ridge stack that has been heightened in brick and a gabled brick extension from the early 20th century at the rear. Inside, there is a plain fireplace on the first floor with an original late 18th-century dog grate.