Bishopstrowe Mill

Bishopstrowe Mill Lane, west side

Mill, now house. Mostly rebuilt after the fire of 1856, but retaining 18th-century and earlier work; converted to a house in 1972–73. The building is constructed of red brick in English bond to the front and English garden wall bond to the rear, with some coursed rubblestone and earlier brick. The roof is covered with double-roman clay tiles.

The mill is three storeys with an attic and features four first-floor windows (five roof bays). The base of the right wall is constructed of rubble of varying height, rising to the second floor with quoins. To the right of centre is a 20th-century board stable door set under a bracketed canopy. Each side has two windows on each floor, those on the right more closely set. All windows have small-pane two-light casements within segmental double header-brick arches. Between the left-hand second-floor windows is a rebuilt attic hoist constructed of vertical boards, gabled with a casement. Tie-rod ends are visible at the eaves. A wide 20th-century dormer sits on the right. The raised verges feature shaped kneelers and ashlar coping, roll-moulded at the apex.

A straight joint on the left marks the boundary between the mill and the former granary, now part of The Mill House. The rear elevation spans five bays with stone at the base of the wall as on the front; the left end has quoins rising to the second floor with some older brick. Central 20th-century glazed doors occupy the ground and first floors, the latter with a balcony. Two-light windows throughout have concrete lintels, and flat-roofed attic dormers are present. A 20th-century conservatory on the right has an opening for the mill race below, fitted with a sluice gate and 20th-century winding gear.

The right return is constructed of stone and older brick with a former lower roof-line visible. The second floor features a re-used, probably early 17th-century window with two lights, hollow-moulding to a double-chamfered surround, sunk spandrels, four-centred-arched lights and a dripmould. A blocked brick-arched window with stone sill is set in the gable. A stone eaves course runs along the return.

The left return shows only the second floor and attic, both constructed of rubblestone with brick quoins, bands, an eaves course, and a two-light gable window surround.

The interior retains the mill race, visible from above and constructed of large stone blocks in its lower courses. A former doorway to the granary (now part of The Mill House) remains on the ground floor. Some large-scantling cross-beams survive. The roof structure comprises collared principal rafter trusses with iron ties, bolts and straps; through purlins and a plank ridge-piece.

A mill is recorded at Bishopstrowe in Domesday. In the 17th century, the mill passed into the ownership of the Temple family of Bishopstrowe Manor, whose possession it remained until the 1950s. The mill operated as such until 1969.

The Mill House

Mill, workers' cottages and granary, now all one house. 18th-century with early 19th-century additions. The building is constructed of painted rubble stone with brick dressings and a tiled roof with a hip to the left. Brick stacks are present.

The main front is two storeys with seven windows, all casements. A four-panelled mid-19th-century door is set in a latticed porch to the right. To the left is a canted bay with four-pane sashes and two-light and three-light cast-iron casements. The first floor has four two-light and single-light cast-iron casements with segmental heads.

Attached to the right is an early 19th-century former granary featuring a three-light casement in a blocked cart entry and a blocked round-arched doorway with keystone and imposts to the ground floor. Two two-light casements occupy the first floor. The granary has a double-roman tiled roof with a coped verge to the left. A planked door in a hipped porch is set in the left return.

The rear elevation retains mainly 20th-century casements and a 20th-century conservatory to the left, though the first floor preserves some cast-iron casements. The interior was not inspected.