Pottens Mill Farmhouse

Pottens Mill Farmhouse is a house that was originally built as a farmhouse in 1737, using timber from a late medieval hall. The building has been altered in the 20th century. Its exterior features brick faced in pebble-dash, set on a plinth of large sandstone blocks, with a tiled roof and end brick chimney-stacks that are rendered over. The house has two storeys, attics, and cellars, and includes three windows. At the time of the survey, the first-floor windows were being replaced with wooden casements featuring leaded lights, and there is one modern flat-roofed dormer.

On the ground floor, there is a five-light 20th-century bay window with a penticed tiled hood above it. The central doorcase has a sandstone moulded cornice displaying the initials T and P S along with the date 1737. The door is a four-panelled mid-19th century design, with the top two panels glazed. The side elevation has a small window in the attic and 20th-century bays below. The rear features a catslide roof and a 20th-century brick extension.

Inside, the large ground floor room boasts a large open fireplace with a wooden bressummer that has run-out stops, alongside an early 16th-century dais beam with roll moulding on the opposite side. The smaller ground floor room has a sandstone chimney breast with a wooden bressumer that also has run-out stops. On the first floor, the bedroom at the end right includes an 18th-century brick fireplace with a round-headed arch, while the central bedroom features an early 17th-century beam with a lambs tongue stop. There is a jowled post and a reused beam with mortises for a diamond mullioned window, although this window is not in its original position as the jowled post bisects the mortises. The roof was originally constructed with angled queen-struts, but these have since been removed. Some of the doors in the house are made of planks.