What makes the complex quietly compelling is its layered construction: three distinct buildings built into a north-west-facing slope, each accessible from the south-east at upper-floor level, as though the hillside itself was used as a kind of natural scaffold during building.

The oldest surviving element appears to be a two-storey rectangular structure at the centre of the range. At some later point, a much larger mill was added at its north-east end, rising to four storeys with four bays and brick-arched window openings. Along the north-east wall runs a wheel-pit, roughly 1.78 metres wide, which once housed a high breastshot or overshot waterwheel. Both types work by directing water onto the upper portion of the wheel, using the weight and momentum of falling water rather than simple flow to generate power. Arched openings in the same wall suggest that the drive was transferred inward via a pinion wheel, a small toothed gear that meshed with the main mechanism to set the millstones turning. The mill race, the channel that would have fed water to the wheel, approaches from the south-west and is now dry. Attached to the south-west end of the central block is a two-storey, three-bay residential structure. Local memory holds that the house was abandoned in 1973, leaving the whole complex to settle quietly into the slope it was built against.