Nestled into the Surrey Hills near the village of Shamley Green, The Water Mill is a Grade II-listed family home constructed where the Wonersh Mill once stood.

The owner, who has listed it for  £8.5 million, (US$10.6 million) took a commercially industrial  building and turned it into a  home, retaining much of the  character and history.

Tall windows provide views over the formal grounds, which include several terraced levels bordered  with lavender and clipped dwarf evergreen hedges.

The open-plan kitchen/family dining  area features a rare type  of limestone flooring…

…fitted furniture and integrated, high-end appliances, and a Carrara marble breakfast bar and worktops.

Inside, the former turbine hall is now a light and spacious dining room, which features some of  the original mill machinery restored and on view behind glass panels.

This 8,231-square-foot house has 5 bedrooms and indoor and outdoor pools placed where the original  water race was.

“The indoor pool also  has a counter-current swim system that not only allows you to swim against the current, but  it was also designed to recreate how the water would have looked when it flowed through the building as a mill. That’s quite fun.”

There is also a spa area with teak deck flooring, Thassos white marble walls and twin rain and waterfall showers.

Don’t forget the  cinema room…

that is adjacent  to a full bar.

Once a mill, the modern design and amenties make it a grand English country house for new owners who wouldn’t mind a swim.