The mill is equipped with an overshot wheel with a cast iron frame and wooden buckets.

When fully operational, it contained two pairs of rotating stones to grind barley and wheat.

It is believed to have been the last mill operating commercially in Monmouthshire, eventually falling into disuse in the late 1980s.

In 1874 the owners became suppliers of seed and animal feed to smallholders,[1][2] and in the 1900s Artie Moore and his brother, who were local technological pioneers, installed a generator powered by the mill wheel to charge batteries for farmers in advance of the extension of mains electricity to the area.

[4] Moore's self-built wireless receiver at the mill picked up the Italian government's declaration of war on Libya in 1911 and RMS Titanic's distress call in 1912.