There is a documented reference to a corn mill on this site in 1617. Aspects of 17th and 18th century mill buildings survive and were in use until around 1940 (Umpleby 2000, 108). The buildings have been restored and reused as a retail outlet. Part of the mill race remains as a dry ditch but it is partially filled in. In 1809 Walter Spencer Stanhope, the then owner, bought land at Blacker Green which included Blacker dam (HSY6341) to increase the water supply to Pot House Mill. (ibid, 108). This may have been the site of the manorial corn mill of Silkstone in the medieval period but there is no firm evidence of this.