The Mill House

The Mill House is a house dating from the late 16th century, with remodelling in the late 19th century and alterations in the mid-20th century. It features part timber framing with rendered infill, brick refacing, and replacement walling, as well as some 19th-century timber framing. The roof is plain tiled. The house has three framed bays aligned north to south, with a central chimney bay that has a partly rebuilt star-plan stack. A single-bay wing projects from the west side of the central bay. The building is two storeys high with an attic and cellar, and it has dormers.

The framing is visible on the west side elevation, with an upper row of panels visible in the south bay. The wing has irregular panelling at ground floor level, close-set vertical studding at first-floor level, and a fishbone truss in the gable end. The east entrance elevation features brick at ground-floor level and 19th-century framing at first-floor level. The ground floor has two 4-pane sash windows, while the first floor has a 4-light window and two 2-light casements. There are two gabled dormers with 2-light casements, moulded bargeboards, and pendant finials. The main entrance, located to the right of centre, has a flat moulded canopy on shaped brackets, a moulded architrave, and a 6-panelled 20th-century door. A 2-light cellar window is situated to the left.

Inside, there is an ogee stop-chamfered cross-beamed ceiling in the south bay, a large back-to-back central fireplace, and the west wall-frame, part of the roof structure, and the complete west wing are intact. A single-bay 19th-century addition is attached to the north-west, and a large lean-to addition is found to the south-west. The building is connected by a 19th-century single-storey wing to a two-storey outbuilding, which now serves as the kitchen. The Mill House is noted for being built on the site of a miller's house that was part of the nearby Bayton Mill, which has since been demolished. It was likely a large and refined building around 1600, with the west wing possibly serving as the porch wing of a lobby-entry plan.