Gill Mill

Gill Mill is a house, former mill, and mill house dating back to the 17th century, with alterations from around the early 19th century and a 20th-century extension. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with one brick gable, and has a stone tile roof with gabled ends. Brick axial and gable-end stacks are present.

The building is L-shaped, with a main range dating from the 17th century. This range includes an axial stack backing onto a through-passage, and, to the southwest, what was likely a former mill. Attached to the front (northwest) end of this wing is a former bakehouse, its southwest side wall facing the River Windrush. A 20th-century extension was built onto the northeast end of the main range.

The asymmetrical northwest front is five windows wide. The two right-hand windows and associated projecting wing have been rebuilt, partially in red brick. The windows are 3-light units with iron casements and leaded panes, under timber lintels. A plank door is located on the right-hand side. The attached bakehouse has a single-storey and attic gable-ended range with a 4-light window, a 2-light dormer window with leaded panes, and a projecting conical-roofed stone tile oven on its northwest gable end. The southeast rear elevation has six windows, a mix of 3 and 4-light units with iron casements, leaded panes, under wooden lintels. A 20th-century glazed door is to the left, and a plank door to the right.

Inside, the central room of the main range features a deeply chamfered axial beam with double-step stops, chamfered joists with step stops, and a large stone fireplace with chamfered stone jambs featuring pyramid stops, the chamfer continuing into the cambered, or Tudor-arch bressumer. The fireplace backs onto a through-passage with a stone floor. The room to the southwest, probably originally part of the mill, has a chamfered axial beam with run-out stops. The roof over the center of the main range is four bays, with two tiers of tenoned purlins, common-rafters, and a ridgeboard. The roof over the southwest end was not inspected. The bakehouse has a chamfered cross-beam with step stops, a 19th-century brick fireplace with a cambered, chamfered bressumer, and an oven. Its roof is two bays, with one tier of chamfered tenoned purlins.