The mill was built in 1767 by Charles Howard, millwright, for Sir John Glynne Bart, Lord of the Manor. It was an L-shaped structure at its greatest extent, possibly arrived at in three stages of development. The original building may have been a single, two-storey range built of well-course sandstone. A later wing on the south-east side is part brick, part rubblestone, and the three part-surviving gables suggest the later addition of a third storey over both parts, built of brick. The overshot waterwheel, of composite construction, is in a separate, roofed wheel chamber at the south-west end of the original range, which may be the best-preserved part of the original building. The wheel was mounted on a round cast iron axle, and drove three pairs of stones carried on a cast-iron framed hursting of sophisticated design, the footstep bearings for the stone spindles being incorporated into the beams of the frame. The cast wallower and two-piece great spur wheel were mounted on a short iron upright shaft, and a secondary vertical shaft was driven from the great spur gear. The removal of floors has allowed the machinery to collapse into an untidy heap.
The mill pool, now silted, lay to the north-west, impounded by a bank which also carried a private track. Water passed in a culvert under the track, but the wooden launder which conveyed it to the wheel has rotted away. Between the mill and the track is an industrial chimney some ten metres high, but its purpose and relationship to the mill is uncertain.
W J Crompton, RCAHMW, 18 November 2009.