Demesnes Mill House And Mill Cottage And Attached Railings

Demesnes Mill House and Mill Cottage, along with attached railings, are a house and cottages with an addition, built in the 18th century and 20th century. The property, initially shown on Ordnance Survey maps as Demesnes Mill Farm, was constructed in 1825, likely for the Earl of Darlington and Lord Barnard, with a later addition in 1923. The building is constructed of rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, featuring a roof of graduated stone slates, stone ridges, and stone and yellow brick chimneys.

The main house is two storeys high, with a 1:3:1:2-window arrangement. The central three-bay section has a door with a tooled stone surround and overlight featuring small glazing bars, as well as flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills to the 16-pane sash windows. Similar detailing is present on the sashes to the left, and a boarded door with overlight is to the right of the house, adjacent to the cottage. Quoins mark the ends of the house and the cottage. A further extension to the left mirrors this detailing, containing a boarded door and small light at the left, and a horizontal sliding sash window on the ground floor, with a 16-pane sash window above. A datestone between the floors of the extension displays the date 1923 with a crowned ‘B’ representing Lord Barnard. The right-end offices, slightly set back, have boarded doors at the left and below the second window. Two horizontal sliding sashes are placed between the doors, and two are situated above.

A dwarf stone wall encloses a narrow space in front of the house and the left extension, and it incorporates gates and lengths of wrought-iron railing which are formed by alternating hoops and spike-headed uprights, with spear-headed principals. The interior of the building remains uninspected.