The Corn Mill And Mill Wheel

The Corn Mill and Mill Wheel is a former barn and corn mill, dating to the late 18th and mid-19th centuries. It has been converted into a house and an open-fronted store. The building is constructed of limestone rubble, with stone slate and artificial stone slate roofs to the main body, and a Roman tile roof to the open-fronted store.

The building has a rectangular plan, consisting of the barn/mill, a projecting porch on the south side, and several lean-to extensions. A lean-to is located to the left of the porch, and another is attached to the rear left gable. A further lean-to was absent from the rear left at the time of a resurvey in August 1985. The south elevation features double doors within the porch. C20 casements (single and two-light) are present in the left lean-to. Ventilation slits are located to the right of the porch, and a former pitching window sits below the eaves. The left gable end exhibits a two-light stone-mullioned casement on the first floor, with a similar C20 casement to the left on the ground floor. The ground floor right side features French doors alongside two single-light casements, one of which is an 18th-century design with a flat-chamfered stone surround. Three C20 skylights are visible in the roof, both at the front and rear.

At the rear of the building, an overshot water wheel, approximately 7 metres in diameter, remains in situ. Water is diverted from a lake via a leat to a feeder pool (containing an overflow outlet and sluice), and then through a cast-iron pipe supported on a stone pier to a tank situated above the uppermost part of the wheel. To the right of the mill/barn is an eight-bay open-fronted store, with bays divided by stone piers.

Internally, the gearing originally powered by a traction engine remains in situ, alongside two mill wheels in a room above. The mill ceased production in the late 1940s or early 1950s.