Moolham Mill

Moolham Mill is a water mill that has been converted into a private house. It has been recorded since at least the 17th century and was apparently rebuilt around 1790. The building is constructed from ham stone rubble with brick dressings and features a clay pantiled roof over stone slate base courses, topped with stepped coped gables and a brick chimney stack on the east gable.

The mill stands three storeys tall with an attic and has seven bays. All openings are topped with segmental gauged brick arches. The windows are now 3-light steel casements, which replaced the original 3-light timber casements seen in early photographs. On the north side, there are doorways in bays 4 and 7 on the ground floor, along with blocked openings in bays 3, 5, and 6 on the first floor, and bays 1, 6, and 7 on the second floor, which are indicated by recessed rendered panels. The former doorways in the west gable have been blocked with brickwork, and the hoist at the gable crown has been removed.

The south elevation appears as two storeys due to the rise in the ground. In the centre bay of the lowest floor is the housing for the waterwheel, dated 1851. This waterwheel, which is a composite of cast iron buckets and axle with timber spokes, was made by Charles Coombes of Beaminster and is overshot and still operational, although the machinery has been removed and stored. The floor structure consists of timber beams, some of which have unusual scarfing details, while the roof frame is made of collar and tie trusses and has seen very little modification. The exact date when the mill ceased operations is unknown, but it was converted into a house in the 1960s. In the grounds, there is the apparent base of a medieval building against the millstream, which is not included in the listing.