Lovedays Mill

Loveday's Mill is a house and attached mill dating to the 17th and 19th centuries, situated at the west end of Beech Lane in Painswick. The house is constructed of large coursed and squared limestone with ashlar detailing on the mill, and has a stone slate roof. It is a symmetrically designed miller's house directly adjacent to the later mill building.

The house is two storeys and attics, with twin gables and a smaller, centrally set gable. The ground floor has 2-light and 3-light casement windows beneath a continuous string course. The first floor features 3:2:3-light casements, and the attic has 2-light casements, all with ovolo-mould mullions and stopped hoods. A plank door is centrally positioned within a depressed 4-centred arch surround, with a stepped string above, flanked by small quatrefoils. An oculus with four keystones sits above the central gable. The house has a plinth, coped gables with cross saddles, and stepped diagonal buttresses on each main gabled front. A right-side return displays three 3-over-3-light casements similar to those on the front gable.

A further wing is set back beyond this, connecting to the mill, constructed of coursed rubble but with an ashlar right end. This wing is two storeys and attic in height and features a large external stack with a weathered offset and rebuilt shaft, as well as various 2-light casements and two 2-light wood casement hipped dormers. The left return of the house has a 3-light ovolo mould casement with a stopped hood above a 2-light plain chamfered window, along with a 2-light dormer. All windows have leading.

The mill itself is two storeys and attic with a high plinth and is five windows wide. It has 2-light plain flush chamfer casements, all leaded, and three 2-light wood casement hipped dormers. The ground floor has plain plank doors in bays one and four. The mill has a plinth and plat bands at two levels, stepping up to the doors. A bell cote rises from the left coped gable, above a 3-light casement over a two-leaf loading door at the first floor (which is also ground level). The rear of the mill has a gabled wing with two 2-light flush chamfer mullion casements at ground and first floors, plus a 3-light window to the gable and a 2-light dormer on the return. A further set-back unit has ground-stage brickwork, a central eaves stack, and 2:2 two-light casements below two hipped dormers. Remains of the mill leat enter the ground floor of this wing.

The interior of the house was not inspected, but contains a small 18th-century stone fireplace with a moulded arch and decorative frieze. A room to the left of the entry features a stone flag floor and a large fireplace with a low segmental head in three voussoirs, chamfered only to the lintel.