Hildersham Mill, Millers House And Attached Outbuildings

This is a watermill, miller’s house, and associated buildings dating from the mid-19th century with later alterations around 1930. A brick chimney stack is inscribed "TB 1868" and has been recently reduced. The buildings are constructed of gault brick, clay bat, and weatherboarded timber-frame, with plain tiled, pantiled, and slated roofs.

The north-facing elevation presents a connected range of buildings extending from east to west, including a barn and workshops set at right angles, built of brick and clay bat, partially weatherboarded, with a variety of openings. The two-storey miller’s house, likely built around 1825, was altered in 1857 and 1908-30. It is of gault brick with a three-unit plan, a wide stack to the left of centre, and an end stack to the right. Features include glazed garden doors, a two-storey canted bay window, and four-paned hung sash windows; there are two ground floor windows and three first floor sixteen-paned hung sash windows. The two-storey mill, with an attic, and a wheel house to the west, are weatherboarded and brick, with two boarded doors in segmented brick arches and one half-glazed-panelled door at a half-storey height. A three-storey brick granary and engine house, constructed around 1858 and 1868, incorporates 20th-century replacement windows and a gantry from the ridge for a sack hoist. Later cart sheds and a bakery or brewhouse are situated to the south.

To the west of the house, facing the mill stream, are converted stables with tarred clay bat rind brick walls connected by a closed porch containing 19th-century double doors reportedly from the Shire Hall. The mill machinery is complete, except for the grinding stones, and includes an iron undershot scoop wheel. The mill ceased operation in 1904. Deeds and photographs of Hildersham Mill are held in a private collection.