Bow Mill House, With Attached Mill

Bow Mill House, with an attached mill, is a mill house and watermill dating from the late 17th century, with some rebuilding following a fire in 1862. The building features stone ashlar and has an undulating roof covered with plain clay tiles over stone slate base courses, topped with tall coped gables that suggest a former thatched roof. There are brick chimney stacks. The structure has an 'L' plan and consists of two storeys with attics, with the west elevation displaying five bays.

The windows are hollow-chamfered mullioned types set in chamfered recesses, with configurations of 3, 2, and 3 lights on the first floor in bays 3, 4, and 5, respectively. The ground floor features a 4-light window in bay 3 and a 3-light window in bay 5, the latter being the only one with a separate label. Bays 3 and 4 share a label, with bay 4 also having a cambered-arched doorway that contains a pair of earlier 19th-century doors with toplights. Bay 1, which houses the mill, has a door at first floor level accessed by stone steps, while bay 2 has a part-glazed door on the ground floor.

The south elevation is similar and consists of three bays, with a gable on bay 1. It features a 2-light window in the attic, a 3-light window on the first floor with labels, a 2-light window without a label in ground floor bay 1, 20th-century French doors in lower bay 2, and a 3-light mullioned window with a label in ground floor bay 3. There is a leanto at the rear and a ground floor extension to the mill building that has a stone access stair leading to a door on the north gable. The interior was not seen, but the mill wheel and leat were still present in 1977. This mill was first recorded in 1373, and the current building may have been constructed following John Pitts' purchase in 1669. The mill was significantly damaged by fire in 1862 but was rebuilt, and it appears to have ceased commercial use after 1896.