Mill House

Mill House is a Grade II listed building located on West Wickham Streetly End. It has two main building periods, featuring a late medieval open hall with a floor and stack added around 1600, and a domestic wing that remains from a late 18th-century house, known as the Red House, which was demolished in the 20th century.

The open hall is timber-framed and plaster rendered, topped with tiled roofs, one end of which has been rebuilt and is half hipped. A red brick ridge stack from around 1600 features grouped shafts. The current plan consists of three bays and a narrower bay for the cross-passage, with evidence that the house originally extended further, as indicated by the chamfered main posts. The building has two storeys and an attic, with two three-leaded light casements dating to around 1800. On either side of the doorway, which is also from around 1800, are two 19th-century three-light horizontal sliding sashes, along with a reset wood pediment from the mid-17th century that was formerly at Horseheath Park. One end of the house reveals exposed framing from a former partition wall.

At the rear, there is a one-bay wing added in the 17th century, which is framed, rendered, and tiled, and it also has two storeys. The adjoining domestic wing from the late 18th century is now demolished but was framed, plaster rendered, and had some brickwork.

Inside, the open hall consists of two bays with a cross-passage that has been blocked by a later hearth. The opposing doorway of the cross-passage is located in the rear wall. The original clasped side purlin roof features wind bracing and is generally smoke blackened. The interior also includes jowled posts, closely set studding, and curved downward bracing. Additionally, there are reset fragments from Horseheath Park, including some shuttering and cornices.