Mill House

Mill House is a former miller's house, likely built in the late 17th century, with some minor later alterations. The structure is timber-framed, with the ground floor underbuilt in English bond red brick featuring numerous burnt headers that create a banded effect in places. The upper frame is hung with peg-tile, and there is a brick stack and chimney shaft. The roof is also covered with peg-tile.

The house has a two-room lobby entrance plan and faces north-northwest. A central axial stack serves the slightly larger room on the left (east), and the staircase rises at the rear of the stack, likely in secondary two-storey outshots. The Mill adjoins to the left, and until the 20th century, the mill race ran behind the house.

Mill House is two storeys tall with attics in the roof space of the main block. The exterior features a nearly symmetrical three-window front with old casements that contain diamond panes of leaded glass, including particularly small panes in the hip-roofed dormers. The central front doorway has a plain plank door beneath a shallow flat-roofed hood. The roof is half-hipped at both ends. The rear elevation is more recent but maintains a three-window design in the same style with half dormers.

Inside, a limited inspection revealed that the main ground floor room has a large brick fireplace with an oak lintel. Both the lintel and the crossbeam are chamfered with scroll stops.

Mill House is part of a very important group of listed buildings in Old Groombridge.