Bill Mills

A flour and paper mill, later a soft drinks factory, dating to the mid-18th century, with additions from the early 19th century and late 19th century, on a site with a history back to at least 1572. The buildings are constructed of sandstone rubble and timber framing, with slate roofs. They are grouped on the north and west sides of the mill pond.

At the west end of the north range stands a timber-framed building with painted brick infill. It is characterised by jowelled principal posts, a boarded gable, a straight tension brace, and light scantling timbers dividing the front into square panels. The first floor has two windows. Set back to the right is a stone building, likely from the early 19th century, with a ground floor window incorporating glazing bars and a first floor doorway to the left. The two right-hand bays are angled back under a hipped roof, and include a window and a door with arched heads on the ground floor. Adjoining the road to the right is a late 19th-century warehouse that was converted into a house in the 1920s and is now partly used as offices. The road-facing wall features metal-glazing-bar windows with arched heads on the ground floor.

The range on the west side of the pond showcases a tall gabled building with two metal-glazing-bar windows with arched heads on each floor. A doorway with an external sliding door is located to the right of the ground floor windows, and an oculus with a clock sits between the first-floor windows, above which is a plaque dated 1891. A tall brick chimney stack stands against the north wall. To the left (south) of this is a lower building under a hipped slate roof, also probably from the early 19th century, with a casement window on the first floor and a small window under the eaves. A door with plain reveals is located to the left. The southern building, also likely early 19th century, has three arched windows on its first floor, which is level with the ground floor of the other buildings, and these windows match those of the 1891 building. A loading doorway was enlarged in the 20th century to the left, and the lower storey has a window and a doorway.

The interior of the timber-framed building contains a stone cellar, which is said to house a Tangye stationary steam engine. The early 19th-century building retains a mill wheel.