Maiden Newton Mill Mill House

The building is a circa 1800 mill and mill house attached, situated on the north side of Dorchester Road in Maiden Newton. The construction combines rubble stone and brick walls in a Flemish bond pattern, topped with a slate roof featuring stone gable copings. A brick stack is present at the right-hand ridge and gable. The building is three storeys high, with a total of six windows: four belonging to the mill and two to the house. A straight joint marks the division between the mill and house, with ashlar quoins defining the mill’s facade. Most windows are 3-light designs with flat stone mullions, architraves, and iron casements featuring glazing bars. The mill includes a two-leaf hatch at the upper left, leading to the roof. This hatch has slated sides and a pitched roof, supported by a wooden platform with two diagonal struts, and incorporates a 3-light iron casement. The ground floor doorway to the mill has straight-chamfered jambs and a very depressed arch head, and is accessed via a two-leaf plank-and-muntin door. The entrance to the mill house features straight-chamfered jambs, a square head, and a flush-panel door with two top lights. A brick porch with a stone gable coping and a ball finial at its apex provides access, incorporating a square headed entrance with a wooden lintel, dating to the 19th century. At the rear of the mill, a rubble stone and ashlar banded tower rises to the building’s full height. Only an iron mill-wheel remains in situ on the west end, a breast-shot wheel crafted by Winter and Hossey of Dorchester in the mid-19th century.