Mill House

Mill House is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a facade of red brick laid in Flemish bond and a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has a T-plan layout facing southwest, featuring external stacks in both rear angles and at the end of the rear wing. There is an early 19th-century extension in the left rear angle. The house is two storeys high and has a four-window range of original sash windows, some of which contain crown glass. The ground-floor windows have flat brick arches above them, and there is a blocked window over the central door. The entrance features a flush six-panel door, with the top two panels glazed, flanked by fluted pilasters, a fluted frieze with paterae, and a dentilled pediment. The eaves cornice is moulded. Inside, there is an original staircase with stick balusters, and the main range and rear wing have chamfered axial beams with elongated lamb's tongue stops. The house remains exceptionally unaltered both outside and inside. Historical records indicate that this second tenement on the site was first recorded on 12 March 1799, built by Roger Cook, who initially constructed a simple cottage for himself around March 1778 before building this more fashionable house within 20 years for his own use and letting the original cottage.