Mill House

SHEPRETH FOWLMERE ROAD TL 3947 (South east side) 21/313 No. 8 (Mill House) GV II

Formerly the mill house. C17, C19. Two bays on the south side remain from the C17 mill house. Timber framed, plaster rendered and tiled. Two storeys. C19 casements and boarded doors. Early in the C19 the part to the east was built. Originally the pantry and stable. Claybat and long straw thatch roof, hipped to east end. One storey and loft. South wall repaired in brick. In mid C19, the house at the west end was built. Also of clay bat, rendered with gault brick front wall and hipped, slate roof, with stack in rear wall. Two storeys. Range of three recessed casements at first floor. Stuccoed doorcase surround with plain entablature and cornice. Inside: in the east wall of the timber framed part one post of an earlier remains. It has a thickened head at approximately present ground floor ceiling height and two vacant mortices. There is a similar post in the opposing wall. It has been suggested that these are a pair of cruck blades. (V.C.H.). The roof over the C19 clay bat pantry and stable has timber of light scantling. There are C19 details to the house part, including the staircase.

V.C.H. Cambs. Vol. 5 R.C.H.M.: Record Card

Listing NGR: TL3938047929