Millrace Yard

Eighty four homes and a row of six shops on the yard behind the old mill, finished in 2024.

Millrace Yard, a finished terrace of flats over shopfronts beside the old mill race
The Millrace Yard terrace with the old mill chimney rising behind it

Place

Millrace

Stage

Complete

Type

Mixed use

Homes

84

Area

9,400 sq m

Completion

2024

Partners

Ashfield Borough Council, Vantage Capital

Millrace Yard was our first scheme with the council as a partner. They put in the land, we put in the capital, and the rents from the six shops return to the council for the first fifteen years.

The last home was handed over in October 2024. Two of the shops are let to businesses that were already trading on the street.

What we kept

District heating from the mill race, which drove the original wheel.

Two of the Millrace Yard shopfronts, a bakery and a bike workshop, on wet paving
A lived-in flat above the shops, the mill chimney and the race visible through the sash window

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