Shirburn Mill

Shirburn Mill, also known as Sherbourne Mill, is a former water mill located on Lawford Mill Hill, dating from the 18th to 19th century. The structure is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a red brick ground floor and a red plain tile roof. It stands three storeys high with a loft, featuring a lucam on the north face and an outshot lean-to on the south.

The north face has a central lucam supported by curved brackets and a window above. There is a three-window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes with moulded surrounds; the ground floor windows have segmental heads. The first floor has a central door, while the ground floor features a central panelled door within a segmental head and a small vertically boarded door to the right. The south lean-to faces the mill pond, where the exterior overshot wheel was located on the east face but was removed in the 1930s.

The mill consists of five bays with hanging knees to the tie beams. Inside, two pairs of millstones remain, one made by H & C Collins from Milton and the other by Tinsby from Ipswich, along with two stone nuts. The dam wall curves around the mill pond to the south and is constructed of concrete faced brick. The mill stream once flowed under a bridge to the west of the mill, which is no longer visible, to power the waterwheel. Shirburn Mill was once associated with a now-demolished upper mill that was situated across the mill pond.