Abbey Mill House

Abbey Mill House is a house dating back to the 15th century, with extensions added in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The construction is timber-framed, with plastered and weatherboarded sections, and a roof of handmade red plain tiles. A parallel range built in the early 19th century forms the entrance elevation, constructed of painted brick in a Flemish bond with a slate roof. The original house is arranged with three bays running north-south, and features a 16th or 17th century stack on the west side. An 18th-century extension exists to the north, featuring an axial stack at the end, with a single-storey, slate-roofed lean-to extension beyond. The entrance elevation showcases a four-window range of early 19th century sash windows, each with 12 lights and flat arches of gauged brick, containing crown glass. A centrally positioned early 19th century six-panel door has flat jambs and paterae, topped by a semi-elliptical arch with a fanlight and radial tracery, and is sheltered by a 20th-century semi-circular porch on stanchions. A plain band runs at first-floor level. The roof is hipped with shallow pitch and long, overhanging eaves. The rear of the property has a projecting weatherboarded section, with two 19th-century horizontal sashes on the first floor. Other rear windows include early 19th century sashes, some altered for ventilation, and a fixed window. One end of the rear roof is half-hipped.

Inside, the house reveals chamfered binding beams on ledged posts and plain joists with unrefined soffit tenons. The roof structure includes a cambered tie beam, an incomplete crownpost roof, one surviving plain crownpost with a section of collar purlin, one severed collar, and one rafter couple. Most rafters in the west pitch of the roof are original. The east pitch of one bay has been raised and roofed with slate; the rest is tiled with the standard tile pitch. The north extension’s roof utilizes clasped purlin construction. An original two-flight staircase with turned newels, a mahogany wreathed handrail, and stick balusters is also present.