Avon Weir

Avon Weir is a former mill-house built in the early 19th century. It features red brick construction with ashlar dressings and has a two-stage roof made of slate and stone tiles, with coped gables and end stacks. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a three-window range. It has flush quoins and window surrounds, with three 12-pane sash windows on the first floor and tripartite sash windows on the ground floor, positioned on either side of a door that has a plain stone surround. The tripartite sashes have casements replacing the center sash. A timber gabled porch is present at the entrance. The roof includes a continuous rendered attic with a pair of casements on each side, with stone slates below and slates above. There are single-storey additions at each end, with red brick on the left and rendered material on the right. The rear wall is made of rubble stone and features a pair of casements on the first floor, each side of a loading door that has been glazed. The site is marked as Christian Malford Mill on the 1773 map by Andrews and Drury. A six-storey cloth mill was constructed around 1800 and operated until approximately 1850, but it was demolished before 1885.