Clun Mill

Clun Mill is a watermill that has been converted into a youth hostel. It was built in the early 19th century and was extended and updated in the mid-19th century by engineer John Poundley. The structure is made of coursed limestone rubble and features an H-plan slate roof with an asymmetrical twin-gabled front. It has two storeys on the right side and two storeys with an attic on the left. The front has four windows, which include two-light segmental-headed wooden casements on the first floor, likely replacing a former loft door, as indicated by straight joints beneath. There is a central half-glazed segmental-headed door, while a door to the right has been blocked in the late 20th century and replaced with a wooden cross casement. The left side has ground floor and first floor segmental-headed two-leaf boarded doors. There are four tie-plates between the floors on the right side and a small wooden hatch beneath the second ground floor window from the left, which was used for a belt drive to external machinery.

Inside, the mill retains complete fittings, including grain bins in the attic and brackets for shafting on the first floor. The ground floor features an internal horizontal reaction wheel and three pairs of stones in a Hurst frame, with a housing marked "COTTON AND DAVIES/22, CHEAPSIDE, LIVERPOOL." There is also a sluice wheel and various pieces of additional machinery, including a grain separator, a scalper (grader), and a smutter (cleaner). The right-hand wing contains a ground floor stable, now a washroom, a grain store above, and a grain drier at the rear, which includes a brick-vaulted oven and a refractory-brick drying floor above. Clun Mill originally had an external undershot paddle wheel to the southeast but was altered to its current form in 1850 under the direction of John Poundley, who also worked on the Leighton Estate in Montgomeryshire. The mill ceased operations in 1926.