Oakford Mill

Oakford Mill is a mill and adjoining house, likely built in the early 19th century, but possibly located on the site of a mill mentioned in the Domesday Book. The building is constructed from whitewashed stone rubble and features a bitumen-painted slate roof that is gabled at both ends. There is a brick chimney stack at the left end and another lateral stack with a brick shaft on the rear wing. The layout is in an L shape, with the front block divided between the mill on the right and domestic space on the left, which extends into a rear left wing. There is a 20th-century infill in the right angle between the front block and the rear wing, as well as a 20th-century single-storey lean-to against the left return.

The mill is prominently situated on the roadside, with Oakford Bridge over the River Exe to the left and a small bridge over the leat to the right. The leat powers an undershot water wheel, which is covered, located at the right end of the front block. The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window front. There is a 20th-century timber door to the left of centre for access to the mill, and a first-floor timber loading door located to the right centre. The front features three early 19th-century windows with rounded arches and attractive two-light small-pane timber casements with rounded heads, along with two-light small-pane timber casements on the ground floor. The domestic section of the building is accessed from the left return through the 20th-century lean-to, which has one early 19th-century first-floor rounded arched window with similar glazing to the front.

At the right end of the main block, the building extends over the leat with two round arches; the left arch directs water to the wheel, while the right arch serves as a sluice gate. The interior of the mill has been inspected and features an iron wheel with timber floats and wheelshaft, along with a significant amount of machinery spread across three floors. This includes gearing for a spur wheel drive arrangement, a sack hoist and sack-hoist doors, a grindstone, a timber hopper, and a series of timber chutes. The collar rafter roof trusses are likely from the early 19th century.