The 1840 Ordnance Survey six-inch map labels it plainly as "Mill (in ruins)", and it was carried forward into the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996 under the category of watermill. By the time anyone looked closely at the site again, however, the ruin had quietly become a home.

When the site was inspected in 2002, no physical evidence of milling activity predating the eighteenth century could be found. Watermills of that period were typically modest timber and stone structures built to harness river flow for grinding grain, and they left behind characteristic features such as mill races, wheel pits, and leats. None of these appear to have survived here, or perhaps were never present in a form old enough to confirm the site's longer-standing designation. What the map recorded as a ruin had, by the early twenty-first century, been converted into an occupied dwelling, making it one of those quietly anomalous cases where a heritage listing and a lived-in house occupy exactly the same address.