Garden House

Garden House, formerly known as Mills House, is a house dating from the late 16th century and later. It has two storeys and an L-shaped form. The building features a timber frame that is plastered, with panels of rope-pattern on the sides and ashlar-lining on the front. The roof is covered with plaintiles, and there are plain bargeboards along with a spike finial on the gable.

The oldest part of the house is the east-west range, which has a three-cell internal chimney and a cross-entry plan. The chimney stack has a plain red brick shaft, and there is a projecting tie-beam on the east gable adorned with guilloche ornament, supported by small solid brackets. The house includes three 18th-century mullion-and-transom windows with leaded panes.

The street frontage is a later addition, connected to the older part of the house by an internal chimney stack that has two square attached white brick shafts. The upper storey features old two-light and three-light casements, while the ground storey has small-paned sashes in flush frames. There is also a six-panelled door with four glazed panels.

This house was the residence of Thomas Mills, who died in 1703, and both he and his 'faithful servant' William Mayhew are buried in the mausoleum located in the front garden.