Wethersfield Mill House Including Front Garden Area Railings And Gate

TL 7229 WETHERSFIELD BRAINTREE ROAD

Wethersfield Mill House 6/10001 including front garden area railings and gate

GV II

Mill house. Built in 1856, probably by Chancellor of Chelmsford. Red brick with bands of gault brick. Slate roofs with deep eaves and shaped bargeboards and finials to gable verges. Brick lateral and axial stacks with cambered brick caps. Plan: Double depth plan with principal rooms at front projecting on either side of central entrance hall. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front. Projecting bays to left and right with round ventilators in gables. Sash windows, with side lights on ground floor and vertical glazing bars on first floor; scroll carving to stone lintels. C19 wooden porch in central recess and panelled and glazed door. Right hand east return has sash windows and canted bay window on right. Left (west) return has small single storey wing and C20 porch in angle. At rear 2 lateral stacks, sash windows and C20 weatherboarded extension. Interior said to contain some of the timbers from the former mill house. Including wrought iron garden area railings in front with decorative finials, on brick dwarf wall and with ornate wrought iron pedestrian gate at centre in front of front door.

Listing NGR: TL7203029607