Anderton Mill Cottage

MAWDESLEY BENTLEY LANE SD 51 SW 13/154 Anderton Mill Cottage - - II

Miller's cottage, now house. Dated 1799 on porch, but incorporating some earlier fabric; altered. Sandstone: front and gables of regular coursed blocks, rear of random rubble, with quoins; slate roof with brick chimneys. L-plan: 3 bays with rear wing to left half. Two storeys; in 1st bay a single-storey gabled porch with oval panel on lintel inscribed 1799 (with a flourish each side) and red tiled roof, and flanking this fixed windows with 4 and 6 panes; further right a vertical joint to half height with long and short stones suggesting the left jamb of a former wagon entrance, a 3-light casement in this part and a 2-light sliding sash to the 3rd bay; at 1st floor, sliding sash windows of 3, 3, and 2 lights. Rear: rear wing mostly random rubble but raised by 5 courses of masonry like the front; doorways into wing and 3rd bay, one small window on each floor. Interior: altered, but 3rd bay contains one exceptionally large chamfered beam. History: associated with windmill which formerly stood a few metres to north.

Listing NGR: SD5105414271