Flanchford Mill

Flanchford Mill is a mid-18th century watermill, with the year "1768" etched into the wall of the pit floor. It was built for James Scawen and restored in 1997. The mill features a timber-frame structure with replacement weatherboard cladding on a basement made of red brick in Flemish bond. It has a replacement plain tile roof and stands three stories tall with a gable-end design, comprising one row of three bays. The windows are 20th-century replacements, and there are old board doors with strap hinges. The east end has a ground-floor door and a loading door above, with a narrow window situated over it. Along the south side, there is a breast-shot water-wheel from 1870, which is in a state of decay. The brick basement includes two round-arched openings for shafts and three windows at ground level, along with an additional door on the north side.

Inside, the original timber frame is well-preserved, featuring unjowelled posts that are braced to the rails and sole-plate, vertical studs, and a roof structure with raking queen struts leading up to the principal rafters. The roof has coupled common rafters with plank collars nailed on, and no ridge-piece. The mill also contains large-scantling chamfered cross-beams and joists, with old floorboards, especially on the first floor. The pit floor retains some horizontal board lining. In the roof space, there are six grain bins set between wooden staging, complete with trap-doors for sacks. Much of the original machinery remains, although some parts have collapsed, including the pit wheels and gearing that connect the waterwheel to the millstones, a sack-hoist, and a flour grader. Of the two original pairs of millstones, one basestone is still in its original position, along with the wooden housing for the other. Flanchford Mill is an unusual example of an 18th-century weatherboard watermill that retains much of its original machinery.