The Mill House and watermill

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TL 66 NW 1/88

NEWMARKET (including EXNING) COTTON END ROAD The Mill House and watermill

II Mill house and attached watermill. Late C18. House: three windows, two storeys and attics. Red brick with string course at first floor. Plaintiled roof hipped at right hand end, with chimneys of red brick; lead flat roofed casement dormers with small-pane sashes. Sash windows with flat arches of gauged brick and early C19 small-pane sashes. C18 entrance door with six fielded panels; oblong fanlight with radial glazing bars; flat lead-roofed semi-circular canopy with moulded fascia, on slender wooden Doric columns. A flat roofed semi-circular bay window, one storey, at side elevation.

Watermill: two storeys. Timber framed and rendered upper storey with herringbone pargetting; lower storey of clunch with gault brick dressings. Pantiled roof. Wooden two- and three-light C18 and C19 windows with small-pane iron casements. Boarded doors. Machinery removed apart from wooden upright shaft, spurwheel and crownwheel: both these gearwheels are of wood with compass-arm construction; the waterwheel was overshot, unusual in Suffolk. The mill is in poor condition with partial collapse.

Listing NGR: TL6195465991