Mill House is a Grade II* listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. A Medieval House. 4 related planning applications.
Mill House
- WRENN ID
- watchful-flagstone-gilt
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
House. Dating back to the 14th century, with additions and alterations in the 15th and 16th centuries, and later changes. It is built with a roughcast and colour-washed timber frame, featuring a plain-tile roof and brick stacks. The plan is of a hall house with two cross wings.
The exterior is two storeys high with three windows at the first floor level. There are 2-light, 3-light, and a lower 3-light C20 cross-casements windows. A 6-panel part-glazed door is centrally positioned on the left side, framed by a moulded wooden architrave and a flat hood on brackets. Further windows and a door are on the left end, while a French window with coloured margin glass is positioned on the right end, along with additional doors and casements to the rear. A date of 1574 is visible on the left cross wing gable, and the right cross wing has a jettied first floor with the date 1923 in its gable.
The interior includes a cross passage with a shallow plaster vault. The dining hall on the right has a floor inserted into the original open hall during the 16th century, and features a broad, chamfered bridging beam with ogee stops. A large brick stack, inserted in the 15th century, contains an open fireplace with a 4-centre arched niche. Above the niche is a recessed panel with a head formed of moulded brick gablets of semi-quatrefoils, supported on miniature corbels. A wall painting is present on the opposite wall, largely renewed or repainted. The smoke-blackened, 2-bay crown post roof is located above the bedrooms, featuring arched braces to the tie from moulded and brattished corbels, with braces extending from the crown post to the collars. The cross wing to the left displays massive close-studded timber framing visible on the ground floor, including a blocked 4-centre arched doorway. The rear kitchen features an open fireplace with a smoke bay. The upper floor is partly open and has been used for storage. Lighter timber framing is present, including tie beam trusses with curved braces and square crown posts supporting collar purlins and upper collars, along with long diagonal braces over the rafters. A small section of wall painting, resembling rusticated stonework, is also visible. The wing to the right includes a sitting room with an 18th-century shell-headed open corner cupboard, with a further cupboard behind. This is a fine timber-framed house with significant surviving elements from the 14th and 15th centuries.
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