Mill Farm Cottage

Mill Farm Cottage is a former farmhouse dating from the mid-14th century. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure with a half-hipped thatched roof. Originally an open hall house of two-cell form, there was likely a third cell beyond the upper end of the hall, which is now missing. The cottage is one and a half storeys high and has three 19th-century casement windows along with a 19th-century plank door. An internal stack has a red brick shaft, and there are pantiled lean-to additions on each gable end.

Inside, the cottage showcases exposed framing, including part of a diamond-mullioned hall window and evidence of windows at the service end. Heavy 14th-century joists at the service end retain original trimming for a stair. The hall features an open truss with an arched-braced tie beam, although the center portion has been removed. This truss supports octagonal queen-posts with a splayed base and one roll moulding, though the capitals are lost. There are thick solid braces connecting the queen-posts to the arcade plates and collar. A further truss may exist above collar level, but this area was ceiled over at the time of the survey. Both wallplates and arcade plates exhibit stop-splayed scarf joints with face pegs. An inserted floor from around 1600 has plain joists set flat, and a stack was added at the upper end of the hall against the open truss. Mill Farm Cottage is noted as the oldest house in the parish.