Bindon Mill And Mill House

Bindon Mill and Mill House, likely the monastic mill of Bindon Abbey, has medieval origins but was largely reconstructed in the 18th century. The building consists of a house with an attached mill. The house features brick and stone walls, a tiled roof, and brick stacks, and is two storeys high. Its plan includes two parallel ranges with separate pitched roofs and a central valley gutter, while the rear range may have originally been a lower lean-to. The roof of the front range has been raised, and there is a stone lean-to at the rear with a slate roof. The west end of the front range, which serves as the current parlour block, appears to be a later addition.

There are two entrance doors: the one at the east end has a panelled door in a brick porch with a slate roof, while the west end features a glazed door in a timber porch with a tiled lean-to roof. The ground floor has two double-hung sash windows with glazing bars, and the first floor has similar windows, along with a two-storey inserted bay window that has double-hung sashes and a dentil cornice. Evidence of a former door at the west end of the facade and a blocked window above it can be seen, along with a built-up pointed arch, possibly medieval, in the east gable wall.

Inside, the kitchen at the east end has a large open fireplace, which is partly built up, and two exposed ceiling beams. The centre room contains a fireplace in the rear wall and exposed chamfered ceiling beams. The west room, or parlour, has a Regency character, featuring a late 18th-century fireplace. There are also dairy and other service rooms in the rear range. Earlier roof trusses with cambered collar beams, possibly from the 17th century, can be found below the later roof structure.

The mill itself has stone walls and a roof that is part tiled, part slated, and part stone slated, and it is also two storeys high. It features timber doors and casement windows, with some machinery still surviving inside. To the east of the mill is a stable block, likely from the 18th century, which has stone walls with brick dressings and an end tiled roof, along with timber doors and windows. A timber bridge and sluices at the rear (north) of the mill are probably from the later 18th to 19th centuries.