The Mill House

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SO 67 SE; 2/1

HEREFORD & WORCESTER, LEOMINSTER DC, BAYTON CP, The Mill House

(Formerly listed as: Coneybury)

II

House. Late C16 with late C19 remodelling and mid-C20 alterations. Part timber-framed with rendered infill, brick refacing and replacement walling; also refaced with some C19 timber framing; plain tiled roofs. Three framed bays aligned north/south; central chimney bay with partly rebuilt star-plan stack; single-bay wing projects to west side of central bay. Two storeys and attic with dormers and cellar. Framing: visible in west side elevation; upper row of panels visible in south bay; wing has irregular panelling at ground floor level, close-set vertical studding at first-floor level, and fishbone truss in gable end. East entrance elevation: brick at ground-floor level, C19 framing at first floor level; ground floor has two 4-pane sashes, first floor has a 4-light and two 2-light casements; two gabled dormers with 2-light casements, moulded bargeboards and pendant finials; main entrance to right of centre has a flat moulded canopy on shaped brackets, a moulded architrave and 6-panelled C20 door; 2-light cellar window to left.

INTERIOR: ogee stop-chamfered cross-beamed ceiling in south bay; large back-to-back central fireplace; west wall-frame, part of roof structure and complete west wing intact. A single-bay C19 addition adjoins to the north-west and a large lean-to addition to the south-west. The building is linked by a C19 single-storey wing to a C19 single-bay two-storey outbuilding, which now forms the kitchen of the present house. The building is noted as having been built on the site of a miller's house forming part of nearby Bayton Mill (now demolished). It was probably a large building of some refinement c1600, the west wing possibly forming the porch wing of a lobby-entry plan.

Listing NGR: SO6894972604