Once home to a family of eight, it has also been a butcher's shop, a cobbler's workshop and an antique store.

Since the last customs officer packed up and left a century ago, the building has variously housed a community hall, a woodworking shop and an antique store.

Many of the items that decorated the restaurant were taken from the former antique store.

Since then, it has been home to an insurance company, a trade school, an antique store, a restaurant and a book store.

In 1942 the mill stopped commercial production and the buildings were used temporarily as a bookstore and an antique store.