Evegate Millhouse

TR 03 NE SMEETH STATION ROAD (east side) 4/141 Evegate Millhouse GV II Mill House. Early C18 exterior. Painted brick on galletted ragstone extended with painted brick, with plain tiled roof. Lobby entry plan, possibly framed hall house origin, with parallel rear wing. Two storeys on plinth with plat band (returned to right) with hipped roof with gablet to right and stacks to centre and to fleft (end left of original structure). Three wooden casements on 1st floor and 2 on ground floor with central panelled door with semi-circular fanlight in gabled porch. The end left bay is a later (C18) addition, with wooden casement and boarded door in hipped hoist housing on 1st floor, and wooden casement and half-door on ground floor. Hipped 2 storey rear wing of painted brick, with small hipped outshot almost over the river (a privy block?). The end left bay of the main range has an arched opening to rear (now blocked), through which the water ran, this being the wheel-house before construction of the new mill in 1862, and diversion of the river.

Listing NGR: TR0637738114