Old Mill Cottage

TM 14 SW CHATTISHAM LOWER BARN ROAD 4/11 Old Mill Cottage - II Cottage, formerly mill house. Later C16 and C17. Timber framed, rendered, thatched 3-cell lobby entrance plan. 1½ storeys. 3 C20 timber casements. Similar pair of windows forming eyebrow dormer. Boarded door. Axial brick stack. Interior: Partition wall between central and right hand cell largely removed, leaving cill and studs and evidence of doorway. Ceiling to right with plain laid flat joists. Central bay bridging beam with lambs tongue stops. C17 stack with chamfered bressummer to right hand opening; basket head or elliptical arch to left hand,the parlour, which is later C17; bridging beam with lambs tongue stops and square joists Stair against stack has octagonal newel post. Clasped purlin roof with cranked wind braces and some replaced rafters. Formerly part of Eton College Estate, marked on Estate map of 1595.

Listing NGR: TM1008942954