Manor Mill

Manor Mill is a corn and barley mill, disused at the time of survey, with a miller's house. The origins of the building date back to the 17th century or earlier, with later alterations. The walls are of stone rubble, with patches of limewash remaining. The miller’s house has an asbestos slate roof gabled at the ends, with a projecting stack on the right end and a rear lateral stack with stone shafts. The mill building has a corrugated iron roof, also gabled.

The miller’s house has a single-depth plan, with three rooms. A central entrance leads to a passage, and the left end of the house has a higher roofline. A single-storey rear lean-to extends from the house, and a two-storey storage and stable block, set at right angles, creates an L-shaped plan. The mill building is parallel to the house at the rear, separated by a narrow yard. An overshot water wheel is situated on the rear wall of the mill. The leat, no longer in use, previously fed a timber launder that curved before turning below the left end of the miller’s house and the storage/stable wing.

The front elevation of the house features three regularly placed windows, with a higher roofline on the left side, which is slightly projecting. A centrally positioned front door has a lattice porch, and there are 19th-century two-pane sash windows with margin glazing. A two-storey lean-to connects the house to the mill building. The storage and stable block has double doors on the left, three doorways on the right, two windows, and a loft entrance. The left gable end of the house has a loft doorway in the attic, a first-floor sash window and a ground floor casement window. The overshot water wheel, with its timber buckets, remains, as does the decayed timber launder.

Inside the house, the right-hand room features a chamfered axial beam with run-out stops and exposed joists, along with an altered open fireplace. The room to the left of the passage has a probably re-sited chamfered cross beam with a scroll nick stop. Significant original machinery remains within the mill building, which has pegged roof trusses.

The building has group value with the Retreat and Millhead Cottage.