Dalton Mill

Dalton Mill is a former corn watermill and miller’s house, dating probably to the early 18th century, with possible earlier origins, and subject to later alterations and additions. It is now a house and outbuilding. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with roofs of 20th-century clay pantiles and stone slates. It has an L-shaped plan, with a two- and three-storey arrangement. The original range incorporates a house with a rear outshut to the left, and a mill to the right. The mill was raised to three storeys in the early to mid-19th century, and a late 18th-century house extension was added to the front of the mill end, with a single-storey lean-to porch addition in the angle. An additional range to the right features an external stone stack, a 20th-century clay pantile roof with stone slates to the eaves, and a four-pane sash window to the left return, above the porch addition, which has a door with six fielded panels, a tethering hook, and a corrugated sheet roof. The original house has quoins to the left, a door of six fielded panels within an ashlar architrave; a bay of four-pane sash windows in matching ashlar architraves, formerly with flat-faced mullions; a raised verge, and a rebuilt stack to the left; and a 20th-century clay pantile roof with stone slates to the eaves. To the right, the raised second floor of the mill has quoins and a stone slate roof. The rear of the mill has a board door at first-floor level, and small windows on the first and second floors. The left return of the house includes a four-pane fixed-light fire window to the right, and a side-sliding sash window in a dressed stone surround to the outshut, with reverse crowstepping to the gable. The right return of the mill displays ashlar stone work at the base where a large overshot waterwheel was located. Inside the mill, on the ground floor is an old board door, formerly external, alongside heavy beams on corbels to the first and second floors, one lower French burr millstone set in the first floor, and remnants of a sack hoist. The interior of the house features an inglenook fireplace with an early 19th-century stone surround with cavetto brackets to the lintel, now containing a late 19th-century cast-iron kitchen range, and a curved chamfered cross beam. Access to the bedroom was previously gained by a steep ladder-stair.