The Old Mill

The Old Mill is a building that consists of a mill, which has been converted, and a house attached to it. The mill tower dates from the late 18th century, while the house was designed by Frank Abbot in 1914 and underwent alterations on the garden front for his daughter Grace Willis in 1928. The structure features brown and red brick with sandstone dressings on the house, and it has plain tiled roofs, with a conical roof over the tower and hipped roofs that sweep over the main house.

The mill tower is located at the right end, with an L-shaped house attached to the left. There is a gable end wing that projects to the front left, forming a courtyard in the re-entrant angle. The building is two storeys high and has multiple ridge stacks, with arcaded panelling on the shafts and oversailing tops to the stacks located to the right of centre and the left end. There are quadruple diagonal stacks to the left of centre, along with an end stack on the projecting wings. The windows are regularly spaced, with two leaded casements on the first floor to the right of the entrance front and two additional first-floor windows on the right-hand side of the projecting wing.

The entrance features an arched recessed porch at the right end, with double studded doors beneath a billeted lintel. The garden front has two storeys with attics, which are situated under a central flat roof dormer and in the gables to the left and right of centre. This front is regular, with two-storey angle bays at either end, which are topped with brick parapets that have diamond patterning. The windows are stone dressed, featuring mullions and transoms with leaded lights, including four three-light windows across the first floor, with the centre light arched on the first-floor window in the right-hand angle bay. There are double glazed leaded doors at the centre beneath an arched head, flanked by margin lights. Additionally, there is another arched door to the left in a brick porch leading to the mill tower. A central stone plaque with gilded decoration adds to the building's character.