Mill House

TM 14 SW 2/25 22.2.55

COPDOCK MILL LANE Mill House, (formerly listed as Copdock Mill and Mill House)

GV II

Mill house. Late C15 or early C16, early C17 and later. Timber framed, rendered, C20 brick plinth, plaintile roofs. Mainly 2 builds. To left 2 bays, 2 storeys with jetty. Some exposed frame, moulded bressumer with pierced decoration, replaced ground floor studs. 2 2-light C20 casements to each floor. To right 2 bays, If storeys. 2 similar 3-light casements, 2 2-light full dormer casements. C20 boarded door in left hand corner beneath large brick stack. Interior. Left hand frame exposed. Long halved bracing; axial beam, and some transverse beams and joists, have double ogee moulding with run out stops. Rear window opening with shutter grooves. 1st floor windows, some blocked, with shutter grooves. Moulded cornice and fireplace bressumer. Crown post roof with square post and longitudinal braces. Stack of early brick is intact to left, but partly rebuilt to right. Right hand first cell, thinner frame, with broach stops to chamfered beams. Over fireplace apparently reused spandrels from ogival headed doorway. The left spandrel contains half-female half angel figure playing instrument, to right a cat plays pipes and drum. Each in a circle surrounded by grapes and leaves to left and animal and leaves to right. End cell largely rebuilt.

Listing NGR: TM1222741925