Calverleigh Mill

Calverleigh Mill is a complex building comprising a mill and a house, dating to around the early 19th century for the mill and likely the mid-17th century for the house, although the house incorporates earlier features, some of which may have been moved. Substantial renovations occurred in the 20th century. The building is constructed of whitewashed rendered stone and cob, with gabled ends to the roof: the left side is slate, while the right side is thatched. There are two axial stacks and a right-end stack, the left-hand stack having a shaft projecting through the roof to the rear of the ridge.

The mill building is situated to the left, incorporating an overshot water wheel (now internal) and evidence of a second external wheel. The house’s layout originally comprised three heated rooms to the right, with some 20th-century repartitioning, and two unheated rooms to the left, adjoining the mill building. The original entrance location is uncertain; the house was reportedly divided into cottages and now has three doors on the front elevation. A rear left outshut is probably a 19th or 20th-century addition.

The front elevation is asymmetrical, featuring eight windows. It incorporates a thatched porch canopy over the front door to the right of centre, a 20th-century glazed door to the left of centre, and a 19th-century half-glazed door to the extreme right. There is a first-floor entrance to the former mill building at the extreme left. The windows are a variety of small timber 19th- and 20th-century 1-, 2-, and 3-light casements with glazing bars. The rear elevation retains a small 17th-century 2-light mullioned window on the ground floor.

The interior displays some 16th- and 17th-century carpentry and joinery, alongside significant 20th-century replacements. One 17th-century scroll-stopped half-beam, an open fireplace with a replaced lintel, two bread ovens, and a partition wall with a blocked crank-headed doorway are present in the left-hand heated room. The adjacent room features a plank and muntin screen and a likely re-sited 16th-century richly moulded axial beam that does not span the room’s full width. Various features of the mill building have been retained, including a sack hoist. The roof trusses over the mill building are probably early 19th century, while most of the left end of the house has pegged 18th-century trusses. One principal rafter, probably 17th century, also survives. The roofspace over the right end of the house has not been inspected.