Brewhurst Mill

Brewhurst Mill is a watermill dating to the late 18th century, which was restored around 1890 following a fire and refenestrated in the later 20th century. The ground floor is built of red brick in a variation of Sussex bond to the front and English bond to the left side. The upper floors are faced with weatherboarding. The roof is hipped and slate-covered. The mill has three storeys and four windows, now fitted with 20th-century top-opening casements. Three ground-floor windows have cambered heads. A gabled lucam is present on the south-west elevation, and there is a plank door.

The north-west elevation features a cast-iron breast-shot waterwheel dating from around 1840. A one-storey brick projection on the north-east elevation houses a c.1928 Blackstone open-crank horizontal single-cylinder diesel engine (number 166890), which became the principal power source until the mill closed in 1981. The drive belt and pulleys are protected by a cantilevered roof and walkway.

The mill's interior contains a largely complete set of machinery. The lower ground floor holds the original hursting, constructed of wood and cast iron, powered by a cast-iron pitwheel and the overshot waterwheel. A second pitwheel, at the southern end, was driven by the external waterwheel. The ground floor contains the main operative hursting, gears, tentering mechanisms for two pairs of stones, a primary belt line shafting, a sack weighing yard, and a grain elevator. The upper floors were rebuilt after the 1890 fire. The first floor has two pairs of stones, a stone crane, controls for the internal and external sack hoists, a cylindrical powered sieve, a weighing yard, and the Mill Office. The second floor holds four large grain bins, a belt-driven roller mill, winnowing machine, a bucket-type grain elevator, and an air fan near the main stone feed hoppers. The third floor consists of a service walkway for the main bins, complete with sack traps and upper line shafting. The roof structure incorporates pine purlins with internal cladding. The structure's floors, internal, and external cladding are of fine-quality pine and are in excellent condition due to their relatively recent construction and the quality of timber used.