Molecey'S Mill And The Granary

Molecey's Mill and the Granary is a mill, house, and granary that has been converted into two houses. The structure dates from the 17th century, with the granary built in 1773 and early 19th-century alterations to the mill. It features a late 18th-century L-shaped block with a water wheel at the rear. The building is constructed from squared limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, and has banded work on the sides and granary. The roof is made of Collyweston slate with raised stone coped gables, and there are single gable and ridge stacks.

The front of the building is three storeys high with a garret and has five bays, topped with a plain parapet. There is an off-centre six-panelled door with a traceried fanlight, panelled reveals, and a moulded architrave with key and impost blocks. This entrance is covered by a tetrastyle Doric columned portico, featuring a triglyph frieze and a modillioned cornice, with a low pediment above the central bay. The central bay is flanked by single tripartite glazing bar sashes. The first and second floors have central glazing bar sashes flanked by single similar windows.

To the left, the mill building has an off-centre 20th-century panelled door, flanked by leaded two-light casements, and to the right, there is a similar three-light window. The upper floors contain pairs of two-light windows. Attached to the left is a gabled granary block of three storeys plus a garret. The ground floor features a blocked door flanked by a two-light glazing bar casement, while the upper floors each have a single similar window. All windows have ashlar lintels with keystones. The gable of the granary displays an ashlar datestone with the initials JME and the date 1773. The side front has two bays with similar windows.

At the rear, the water wheel chamber has a pantile roof topped with a wooden turret. Inside, there is a stick baluster stair with a carved string and early 19th-century joinery details. The 17th-century undershot water wheel has been modified in the 19th century and remains intact and in working order; it is the only example in Lincolnshire of Poncelot's improved design. The mill retains all its floors and beams, along with grinding wheels and stones with a wooden shaft.