Town Mill

Town Mill is a watermill that has been converted into scenery workshops and a theatre. The eastern range, which is closest to the road, dates from around 1771, while the western range was built around 1852. The building features brown brick on the east side and red brick on the west, topped with a plain tiled half-hipped roof that has a tile-hung gable end on the west, some of which is in a diamond pattern.

The structure has three main floors and two attic floors in the gable ends. There are brick plat bands above the ground, first, and second floors, and brick dentils at the eaves. The eastern range, facing south, has five bays with two-light, cambered-head casement windows set in gauged-brick surrounds. There are five windows on the second floor, four on the first floor, and four on the ground floor, with two windows on the right now blocked. Central double doors under cambered heads lead to further panelled doors above at the centre of the first floor.

To the left (west) is a two-bay extension featuring larger 3-light casement windows under cambered heads. This extension has two windows on each of the first and second floors, and one window on the ground floor to the left, with double doors to the right. The west end has a central boarded section on the main gable with two casement windows, and three windows on the first and second floors. There is a double-gabled single-storey range at ground level with further extensions to the right end over the mill race.

On the north (rear) side, the building has regular fenestration with a basement storey that extends into the water. This structure is a reconstruction of an earlier mill that stood on the same site. During the rebuilding, the mill wheels were converted from undershot to breastshot. The western range was originally known as Hogsmeal Mill before its reconstruction around 1852. A date plaque from 1896 refers to the installation of new water pumps by the Guildford Corporation when the mill was converted into a waterworks.