Lowdham Mill And Footbridge

Lowdham Mill and Footbridge is a water mill and house, now used as a house, with an accompanying footbridge. The mill dates from the mid-18th century and the early 19th century. It is constructed of red brick with a pantile roof and features a single red brick stack at the rear. The building has dentil eaves and stands three storeys high plus a garret, with three bays. The doorway has a glazing bar door, and to the right is a single glazing bar casement, followed by an archway that houses a wood and iron water wheel. On the first and second floors, there are three similar casements, and in the garret, there is one more. All the casements and the doorway are set under segmental arches.

To the right of the mill is a two-storey wing made of painted brick with a pantile roof, featuring three large doorways with 20th-century doors and three segmental arched casements above. To the left of the mill, slightly set back, is an 18th-century rendered house with a plain tile roof, right gable, and single ridge red brick stacks, also with dentil eaves. This house is two storeys high and has three bays. It includes a doorway with a glazing bar double door, a single buttress to the left, a tripartite glazing bar cross casement, and a 19th-century rendered gabled porch with an arched entrance and an inner panelled door under a segmental arch. Above the porch are two glazing bar cross casements and a single light casement to the left. There is also a single circular tie plate. To the left of the house is a single-storey, single-bay rendered wing with a pantile roof, dentil eaves, and a single glazing bar tripartite casement.

In front of the mill, there is a footbridge with a 20th-century iron parapet, which terminates in squat ashlar coped brick piers and features a single brick arch underneath. The interior of the mill contains machinery for driving stones, including a great spur wheel and stone nuts, as well as a wheel for opening the sluice gate.