The Mill House

The Mill House is a Grade II* listed hall house dating from the late 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th, 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with plastering and a thatched roof. The building consists of four bays arranged approximately east-west, including a two-bay hall, a service bay to the west, and a parlour or solar bay to the east, with a southern aspect.

A timber-framed chimney was inserted in the west of the hall during the 16th century, while a brick stack was added inside in the 19th or 20th century. There is also an external chimney stack at the eastern end, dating from the 19th century. A single-storey northern extension from the eastern bay is weatherboarded and has a roof covered with red clay pantiles, also from the 19th century. The house is single-storey with attics and features a 20th-century door, one fixed window from the 19th century, two casement windows from the 20th century, and an additional casement window in a swept dormer. The roof is half-hipped at the western end.

Inside, the house has jowled posts and curved bracing that is trenched outside heavy studs. There is a rebated rear doorway that is blocked, while the present front door is located where the original front door was. The building has inserted floors throughout, supported on pegged clamps, with axial beams in the two eastern bays that are plain-chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. The joists in the hall have a horizontal section and are plastered to the soffits elsewhere. The collar-rafter roof is heavily smoke-blackened over the hall and was originally hipped, later extended to form a gable at the eastern end. The laths over the hall are also smoke-blackened, but not as heavily as the rafters, suggesting they were replaced while the open hearth was still in use. The timber-framed chimney required the removal of one collar and the insertion of an extra tie beam. It features a jointed and pegged mantel beam and inclined studs on all four sides, rising to a platform just below the roof level, above which the flue continues through the thatch with brickwork. The house is listed as Grade II* for its remarkably intact 16th-century timber-framed chimney, which is a rare survival.