Both Oxnead Mill and Buxton Mill were built as four-story, white-painted brick and weatherboard structures and each features two sack-hoist enclosures, known as ‘lucams’ – one over the water and another over the adjacent road or yard. Over the years, Oxnead’s white-painted bricks have reverted to their original colour, and the mill lost one of its roofs and both lucams in the 1960s, as can be seen in this film, but they were restored in 1986 when the entire roof was renewed.