The Old Water Mill

The Old Water Mill is a late 18th-century water mill, with 19th-century alterations, located on the River Maun. It includes a parapet and footbridge. The building is constructed of red brick, with remnants of whitewashed roughcast, some concrete, iron, and wood, built upon a stone platform. It has pantile roofs.

The south front presents a three-bay, two-storey plus garret C18 wing, set back to the right, a single-storey, single-bay lean-to in the centre, and a lower two-storey plus garret, two-bay wing, also set back, to the left. The C18 wing has raised and brick-coped gables and buttressing. A doorway with a double wooden door and a small fixed glazing bar light sits under a segmental arch to the right of the C18 wing. A low doorway with a double wooden door, housing the iron water wheel, is located within the lean-to. The C19 wing to the left features a clasping buttress and two archways with flat concrete lintels, and a central concrete buttress. The right arch is a water channel with a sluice gate. Above the C18 wing’s archway is a single fixed glazing bar light under a segmental arch, with a recessed blind panel to the left. A doorway with a panelled wooden door is further to the left. The C19 wing houses a single Yorkshire sash window, with three tie plates visible. An embattled parapet extends over the river, with a central rubble cut water channel.

The east front features projecting gabled wings with catslide roofs to the left and right, and a single stack to the left. A central doorway has a part-glazed panelled door, with two window openings above. A round brick arch spans a water channel on the left side. To the right, set back in the C19 wing, is a second water channel with a round ashlar arch over, including a keystone. A single flight of iron steps leads to a doorway with a part-glazed panelled door under a segmental arch on the first floor. Again, three tie plates are present. A cantilevered wooden footbridge projects from this front.

The interior retains much of its C19 iron machinery, including two millstones, a water wheel, pulleys, and hoppers.