The Old Mill

The Old Mill is a house with an attached mill building, originally dating back to the 17th century, with extensions likely added in the 19th century and a mid-to-late 19th-century mill. The house is constructed of rendered cob walls, incorporating some rubble, with stone rubble walls to the mill, all under a gable ended asbestos slate roof. There are three brick stacks: two axial, and one at the left gable end. The original layout is unclear due to later alterations, but it likely began as a three-room-and-through-passage plan. The house appears to have been extended at the left-hand end and possibly reduced at the right end. The right-hand room is likely the hall and contains an axial stack for heating. The other two stacks are probably later additions. A lower, probably 19th-century addition stands at the right-hand end, originally used for a non-domestic purpose. This is followed by the mill building, a single long room containing two water wheels served by a leat (an artificial watercourse) that runs in from the front, underneath the building, behind which the ground drops away to the river. The exterior presents a long, asymmetrical four-window front with late 20th-century PVC casement windows. A two-storey gabled projection is located to the left of centre, with a 20th-century lower gabled porch containing a stable-style door. A 19th-century plank door is situated towards the right-hand end, leading to a lower 19th-century addition, and beyond that, the mill building. The mill has three original four-light windows with overlapping panes and brick arches above, along with a doorway at its left-hand end featuring a similar arch. Inside, the two right-hand rooms have chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The right-hand fireplace is partially filled in, and has a chamfered and stopped wooden lintel and granite jambs. A partially re-sited 17th-century plank and muntin screen, with chamfered and moulded edges to the muntins which have hollow step stops is located at the end of this room. A re-used 17th-century chamfered doorframe is present at the rear of the room. The 17th-century roof also survives, featuring straight principal rafters with threaded purlins and dovetail-halved collars. One truss appears blackened and seems to have been re-assembled from different pieces of reused timber. The mill retains original mill stones and machinery.