Elstead Mill

Elstead Mill is a timber-framed mill and mill house, now a restaurant, with significant rebuilds and extensions spanning the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, and further work in the 19th century. The front of the building combines timber framing with red brick cladding on the right, brown brick in the centre, and painted weatherboard on the left. The roofs are covered in plain tiles, with a hipped form on the right, a gambrel form in the centre, and a lower hipped slate roof on the left end.

The central mill section is four storeys high, with gable-end attics and roof lights. It has a plinth to the ground floor and brick dentils to the eaves, built over rubblestone and brick arches spanning a mill race. A six-column, Ionic, domed cupola sits on the roof ridge, topped with a weathervane finial. There are four casement windows on the second and third floors, grouped in threes under cambered heads, and two windows on the first and ground floors. A central first-floor loft door is positioned under a cambered head, above a ground-floor entrance. An extension to the left features two windows per floor, with double doors on the first floor and ground floor. A pentice extension to the ground floor right has a window above double doors, connecting to the mill house.

The mill house stands two storeys high on a plinth, with a broken plat band over the ground floor and brick dentilled eaves to the left half, a stone-coped parapet to the right half, partially concealing the roof. A tall, central ridge stack rises from the building, with corbelled stacks to the rear left and right. Five two-light casement windows are set under gauged brick heads on the first floor, while four two-light casement windows with margin lights are found on the ground floor. A central glazed door is sheltered by a lead tent hood. A cross wing extends to the rear right, with a parallel extension projecting from the right end, set back from the main facade.

The rear elevation features weatherboarded, pentice-roofed extensions across the mill race, in the centre.

Inside the mill, much of the original mill machinery is now displayed. The mill house retains heavy, chamfered ceiling beams.