Sluice Gate To North Of Hyde Mill

The sluice gate to the north of Hyde Mill is a late 19th-century structure that has undergone some 20th-century alterations. It features a timber and cast-iron design, with brick walling for the water channels. The sluice gate itself is made of studded timber, with horizontally-boarded sections set between upright timber posts. It has vertical side boards and includes two toothed iron racks mounted vertically on them. Iron pinion wheels are attached to either end of a horizontal roller, which, when turned, raises the gate to allow water to flow from the mill head race channel into a brick-lined overflow channel to the west. This sluice gate is part of the water control system for Hyde Mill and is grouped with the mill and the nearby farm buildings and mill office.