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The Cotes Mill was situated on Nottingham Road. This pub is now used as a furniture showroom.

From The Good Pub Guide 1983:

In a very attractive spot by a mill-pond off the River Soar, this substantial white building has been recently converted from a watermill - you go in through a high asbestos hangar that used to be a loading bay. The big, lively ground-floor bar, busy with students from Loughborough, has simple furniture and white-painted brickwork, and leaves the bones of the structure bare; there's a table by the corroded iron waterwheel, for example. Upstairs is more comfortable and roomier with blond-wood tables and chairs, pale leatherette seats, and reproduction advertising mirrors on the cream walls. The good range of real ales - Bank's Bitter and Mild, Hoskins, Marstons Pedigree, Sam Smith, Shipstone and Ruddles County, all on handpump - is well kept, and readers find the food good value for family lunches: it includes filled rolls (35p), ploughmans (£1.20), salads (from £2), lasagne (£2) steak and kidney or rabbit pie(£2.25), beef chasseur or braised steak (£2.50), perhaps a three course lunch (£3.75). There is a good juke box or piped music, darts, a fruit machine and space game. You can sit outside on the grass above the mill-pond. The mill is also used as a modern art gallery, and its barn may be hired for jazz and the like.

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