The Mill House

The Mill House is a former farmhouse of early 18th-century date, later refronted in the early 19th century and extended by one bay to the north in the late 19th century. It was subdivided into three cottages in 1986.

The building is constructed with a ground floor of brick on a tooled sandstone plinth, and an upper floor of tile-hung timber frame, either with curved or plain tiles. The roof is gabled with an off-centre 19th-century brown brick chimneystack and an external chimneystack to the south east.

The building originally followed a two-bay plan with an end chimney stack and central staircase. It is two storeys to the north east and, due to sloping ground, three storeys to the south west, with an attic to number 2. The front elevation displays a four-window arrangement.

The north west front has Flemish bond brickwork to the ground floor with curved tiles above. There are three twelve-pane sash windows in reveals on the first floor and similar windows on the ground floor. Number 3 features a two-storey canted bay beneath a late 19th-century gable hung with curved tiles, fretted bargeboards and a pendant. Numbers 1 and 2 have simple doorcases with 20th-century doors. Number 3 is entered via a doorcase in a late 20th-century extension with a fretted gabled hood on brackets matching the adjoining late 19th-century gable.

The south east rear side has lower floors of circa 1800 Flemish bond brickwork incorporating vitrified bricks, with tile-hung upper floors. A late 20th-century catslide extension serves number 2, and a flat-roofed extension serves number 1. A central hipped dormer is present, with other windows being irregularly-spaced casements. Late 20th-century single-storey additions to the north west and extensions to the south west are not of special interest.

Internally, number 1 contains an early 19th-century staircase with stick balusters and column newel. The first floor has an 18th-century timber-framed internal partition with diagonal braces, exposed beams and a dragon tie to the corner. The basement staircase is a straight flight with 19th-century beaded boarding on one side. Number 2 has a large ground-floor room with a large wooden bressumer over an early 18th-century open fireplace, later blocked. A chamfered axial beam and unchamfered floor joists are present.

The property appears on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map without a name, alongside two associated buildings to the east and south. By the 1904 edition, the site was marked as Mill Farm with extended footprint to the north west, though the two associated buildings had been removed. The building acquired the name Mill House because it stood opposite a mill that burnt down in 1878 (not shown on the First Edition map), though this property had no connection to the mill. The building was renamed from Mill House Farmhouse to The Mill House, Nos 1, 2 and 3 more recently when a neighbouring newly built farmhouse took the name Mill House Farmhouse.