Little Mill Farmhouse

NU 21 NW LONGHOUGHTON LITTLE MILL

5/144 Little Mill Farmhouse II

House, dated 1714 with initials HB (Hannah Barron). Attic floor of front block removed and roofs renewed in later C19; interior remodelled c.1970 after years of dereliction. South and east walls large squared stone, other walls rubble; cut dressings and stacks. Welsh slate roofs with yellow brick stack to rear wing. L-plan.

South elevation 2 storeys, 5 bays, symmetrical. Centre fielded-panel door in badly-damaged bolection-moulded surround; 12-pane sash windows in moulded stone surrounds. Coped gables; stepped-and-corniced end stacks. Left return shows 1st-floor chamfered window, with renewed glazing, and blocked opening above; traces of possible lower gable line to left. Rear elevation of front block shows small chamfered window at 1st floor.

East elevation 3 bays: left gable end of front block with blocked chamfered windows. Centre bay shows C20 window in former doorway under relief-carved lintel with shield, enclosing initials and date, flanked by scrolly-foliage; blocked chamfered window above. Right bay shows ground- and 1st-floor windows in architraves with projecting moulded sills. Coped right end gable with rebuilt stack. Right return of wing shows blocked 2-light mullioned window on 1st floor.

The 1714 date may relate to the building of the house or adaptation of an earlier fabric; the present south front may have been remodelled in the second quarter of the C18.

Single-storey extensions to north and west of rear wing are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NU2270418051