Mitnell Farmhouse

Mitnell Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dated 1674 with 20th-century extensions. It is constructed of stone rubble and has plain clay tiles. The building features stone projecting end stacks with brick shafts and a brick ridge stack.

The south front, which faces the garden, has a four-window range. This includes two three-light casements on either side of a reset two-light casement, along with an additional 20th-century three-light casement in the extension to the left. On the ground floor, the central 17th-century bay has a four-panelled door beneath a 20th-century projecting tiled gabled open porch. The right-hand gable end displays two 17th-century chamfered oak-framed cellar openings with inserted mullions, and there are 20th-century casements on the ground and attic floors.

At the rear (north), there are two 17th-century oak chamfered mullioned windows with two lights, and another similar window to the left at ground level. A former central doorway has been infilled with a three-light casement set on stone, featuring an ogee-stop-chamfered lintel. There is also a 20th-century single-storey extension to the right with an entrance door.

Inside, the farmhouse includes an ogee-chamfer-stopped bridging beam and mantle-beam in the east bay. There is a full-height square-panelled cross-frame between the east and central bays. The central bays have chamfered bridging beams with morticed soffits. An ogee-chamfer-stopped mantle-beam, inscribed with initials and the date, is present. The first-floor west bay features an ogee-chamfer-stopped mantle-beam with a diamond inscription. The roof is a single trenched-purlin type with two twin-raking-strut trusses. The inscription on the mantle beam reads 'RS' over '1674', set in an incised border and flanked by 'T' and 'B', which are reputed to represent Richard Salwey (Lord of the Manor) and Thomas Bezand (tenant).