Millington House

Millington House is a house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with handmade red clay tiles. The main structure consists of four bays facing east, featuring an axial stack in the left bay and a four-bay crosswing to the left, which has an external stack at the rear. There is also an external stack at the right end of the main range, now enclosed by a 20th-century extension that projects to the rear.

The house is two storeys high and has a six-window range of 20th-century casements, along with one original window on the first floor that has two ovolo mullions and modern glazing. The entrance features a 20th-century door, and there are garage doors in the right extension. The crosswing jetties out at the front, showcasing exposed joists of vertical section and two 20th-century brackets. The structure includes jowled posts and both straight and curved primary bracing.

Inside the main range, the two bays at the right end were originally divided into two service rooms, although the partition has been removed. The axial beam in this area is chamfered at the front only, without stops, and the joists are plain and of vertical section. The next bay contains two chamfered longitudinal beams with plain stops and plain joists. There is a large wood-burning hearth, constructed of 330 mm brickwork, located in a short chimney bay.

The crosswing was originally divided into two ground-floor rooms, featuring original wattle and daub infill with a diamond pattern. The binding beams here are chamfered without stops, and the joists are plain and of vertical section. On the first floor, there was originally a similar partition, which has since been removed. The tiebeams are chamfered with broach stops, and the plain joists frame an original ceiling. A shutter groove is present in the front tiebeam, and there is a hearth on the first floor with a depressed arch and chamfered jambs, which was originally plastered but has now been stripped. The composite roof over the main range is primarily of clasped purlin construction, with a butt-purlin section in the front pitch. An old photograph shows the house as three tenements and is referenced in E.A. Wood's "A History of Thorpe-le-Soken to the year 1890," published in 1975.