Cliff Mill

This is a late 18th-century cotton water mill, later converted into a house around 1975. It is constructed of red brick with a hipped pantile roof and single red brick stacks to the front and right. The building has dentil eaves and stands three and a half storeys high, with 11 bays on the ground floor and 10 bays on the first and second floors. A partly blocked carriage archway now forms an internal porch with 20th-century inner doors. The ground floor features a range of casement windows and a doorway, with three casements to the left and three to the right, alongside several blocked window openings. The first floor has eight larger casement windows with matching blocked openings, and the top floor has eight smaller casements with similar blocked openings. All windows and blocked openings have blue brick sills, and the ground and first-floor openings are under segmental arches. Rubble embankment walls stand to the north of the building, while to the south is a bridge over Dover Beck, featuring an ashlar-coped brick parapet and a single segmental arch and a round brick arch underneath. The right-hand section of the building is partially demolished. The interior retains a large water wheel. The mill is reputed to be where Robert Blincoe worked, who later wrote Memoirs detailing the treatment of a parish apprentice. Group value context: It demonstrates a significant example of industrial architecture adapted for domestic use, retaining some key features associated with its original function.