Candy Mill with Miller's Cottage and Leat

The building comprises a mill with a miller's cottage and leat, dating from an unknown period, constructed of uncoursed axe-dressed local limestone masonry. The miller’s house retains its slate roof, while the mill roof is now sheeted. The mill’s wheel is positioned internally and at its centre. Originally, headwater from the River Wheeler was collected in a small adjacent reservoir (now dry) and passed to a tailwater culvert on the west side.

The mill, excluding the house, is divided into three sections. From the road, the left section contains a stable with a hayloft above, separated by a dividing wall from the rest of the mill’s structure. This is followed by vertically aligned loading doors and a clover mill, also with a hayloft above. To the right of the wheel position is the corn mill, spanning two storeys. The mill’s front elevation features loading doors, four hatches above, a stable door on the left, three ground-storey windows centrally, and a main entrance door on the right. A single-storey later extension at the north end of the mill contains an additional stable and cartshed, with another shed attached to the rear.

The two-window miller's house is to the right, separated by a full-height wall. It has a two-window front elevation with a modern door and overlight, and a two-window rear elevation. A lean-to kitchen partially overlaps the mill. The interior of the house includes two ground-floor rooms, three bedrooms, and a kitchen within the lean-to extension. It has a stone floor and stairs positioned against the mill wall.

At the centre of the mill is a large undershot composite wheel, approximately 7 metres in diameter and 2 metres wide, complete with gearing and belting to all the machinery. The corn mill section to the south of the wheel is complete with two pairs of (Anglesey?) wheat stones, and a pair of (French burr?) stones for oats. A flour cleaning and grading machine is located below. On the north side of the wheel is a clover mill containing a single mill with a stock resembling the hub of a cartwheel, set vertically with spokes and beaters at regular distances around it. A low opening in the south end wall of the mill, now walled up, originally provided access between the mill and the house, positioned beneath the stairs in the house.