Nant Mill

A large stone-built mill extended to include malting and brewing. The building faces north with its rear to the millpond dam. Axe dressed local stone with roof of small slates. Semicircular archway right of centre where the original structure (to right) terminates, and where the water wheel was situated, with a gap in the walling above of about 1m width filled with boarding above a first-floor door. Small window openings, in three storeys to left and two storeys to right, retaining window frames only. Two attic windows in right gable boarded up. The openings to ground and first floors have cambered voussoir heads. Stable-type doors.

At left is the narrower whitewashed two-storey, three-bay house with slate roof at same eaves height; modern windows and two red brick chimneys. Door and porch to left, door to right.

Set back at the right is the original miller's house in roughly coursed local axe-dressed masonry; three window above and two below, all with four-paned horned sash windows; door at left. Addition bay at right. Slate roof.

The interior was not inspected at time of resurvey, but retains a significant amount of in-situ mill machinery, unusual in having 'over-driven' gearing which was typical of windmills but very rare in watermills. The off-centre wheel-pit formerly contained a large overshot water-wheel. The corn mill is said to contain three pairs of stones and the brewery one pair. The drive is by a crown spur wheel on a timber shaft with secondary drives.

Stairs, dated 1823, to bin-floor with hopper down to stone floor. Corn-mill to west has a king-post roof which has been described as including a reused sailing-ship yard; trusses resting on stepped wallheads; lightly stop-chamfered beams. Former gable end has splayed recess. Passage created at 1st floor level along front of wheelpit.