Bosmere Mill and Flint Cottage

Bosmere Mill and Flint Cottage is a late 18th or early 19th century former watermill, and was once a restaurant. It is a four-storey building with attics, constructed with a timber frame and weatherboard cladding. The roof is covered in concrete tiles, half-hipped at the north end, and features a gabled lucum (hoist loft) projecting from the east roof slope. The original sash windows have been replaced with 20th-century small-pane pivoting casements in a three-window range. A pair of 20th-century multiple-panelled doors provide access. A two-storey extension of brick and flint was added in the 19th or 20th century to the west side. A large iron breast-shot waterwheel, formerly housed within a wheelhouse, is now situated externally. All milling machinery has been removed. The mill was formerly known as Barking Road Mill or Quinton's Mill. The original Bosmere Mill was located approximately 800 metres down the River Gipping at Riverside Farm, Creeting St. Mary, until the 20th century.