Editing ALVATIA: Ingsby - Mill (section)

===Mill Exterior===

The mill itself is a half-timbered, thatch roofed, L-shaped building, roughly 50 feet long by 40 feet from front to pond-side. Its walls are made of heavy timber framing; some openings are filled with rubble and mortar, others with the more typical wattle and daub. All of the floors are of hard-packed dirt. The "east wing" (40 feet long by 13 feet wide)contains the miller's family quarters; the "west wing" (27 feet by 37 feet) holds the mill itself.

Facing the village, away from the pond, is a wide double door in the west wing; a broad single door opens on the west side of the east wing; another, ordinary sized, door opens in the middle of the east wall. There are shuttered windows at the north and west gable ends of the building, plus two on the east side. Reeds grow along the millrace, almost up to the east end of the building. The noise of water flowing over the weir and through the millrace is always present. When the mill is grinding grain, the heavy creaking and shuddering of the wooden wheel and gears mix with the scraping noise of the millstones.

Two holes, each a foot square and 4 feet deep, have been dug 13 feet from the south ends of the east wing, announcing plans to expand the mill. The holes are mostly filled with water, however, and progress seems to have come to a halt lately. Sometimes, the holes are covered with flat rocks, to prevent people and animals from stepping in them and breaking a leg.