Hunsdon Mill House With Attached Stables,Coach House And Retaining Walls

Hunsdon Mill House is a house with attached stables, coach house, and retaining walls, dating back to the 17th century. It incorporates earlier, 16th-century moulded beams and was extended and faced with brick in the mid-19th century, likely around 1854. Further alterations and extensions occurred around 1912. The house is constructed of whitewashed brick with red tiled roofs, and the stables and coach house have red pantiles and slate roofs, with some slate missing. The main building is a rambling, two-story, U-shaped structure facing south, featuring three parallel pitched roofs. The south front has three irregular gables and a narrow entrance bay between an older eastern range (timber-framed in the 17th century and later cased in brick, with a steeper roof and a central chimney) and a pair of mid-19th century ranges to the west. Five recessed sash windows with segmental arches and 6/6 pane glazing are present on the south front. The eastern range has a canted bay window on the ground floor, with tile arches added around 1912, and three arched sash windows with Gothic tracery to the left of the entrance door. The entrance door is panelled and half-glazed, with a 4-centred head and Gothic tracery, set within a wooden doorcase featuring panelled pilasters, carved brackets, and a flat hood. The east front has three sash windows, with a central triple sash window on the ground floor and a small stair window above. The west front features two sash windows on the 19th-century part, but two small-paned, two-light casement windows on a short, two-story brick rear extension constructed around 1912. This extension appears to be a partial rebuilding of the lower two stories of the brick stable building, with the rest of the stable extending north, attached to a lower coach house with a hipped slate roof extending westward. A 17th-century brick wall defines the west side of the yard and forms the west and north walls of the coach house, emerging as a buttressed retaining wall running north from the northeast corner of the stable. A two-story, lower hipped-roofed plastered extension from around 1912 is located on the west side of the eastern range near its north end. Internally, the house features restrained grey marble 19th-century fire surrounds, moulded six-panel doors, two massive roll-moulded 16th-century tie beams reused as axial floor beams in the 17th-century eastern range, and an unusual cast iron fire surround with intaglio decoration in a middle room of the eastern range. This is an historic house exhibiting features from multiple periods, and is part of a group that includes the bridge and Hunsdon Pound House.