Mill Cottage

Mill Cottage, likely dating from the early 18th century, although a building is said to have existed on the site as early as 1566, was originally associated with a windmill which has since disappeared. The building was once two cottages. Constructed with a timber frame, the ground floor is built on brick foundations of two different periods, while the upper part of the facade is tile-hung, with weatherboarded end walls. The roof is tiled, topped with a brick chimney shaft.

The cottage is south-facing, built end-on to the road, incorporating the natural slope of the land at its western end, which allows direct access to the first floor. The original windmill was located to the west. The plan consists of three rooms, with a rear outshut to the north. The two western rooms are larger and share a back-to-back fireplace around a central axial stack. A smaller, unheated room is located at the eastern end. A vertical joint in the front elevation marks a division between English and Flemish bond brickwork, suggesting different building phases or dates for the brick foundations. A photograph from the 1940s shows two front doors, the left-hand of which no longer exists. The right-hand door gives direct access into the right-hand (eastern) heated room, where the staircase rises along the rear wall. The rear outshut is heated by a lateral stack on the north-west side.

The south frontage is asymmetrical, with three window bays. A 20th-century front door is located to the right of the centre. Various 20th-century 2 and 3-light timber casement windows are present. The roof is half-hipped at each end. The east-facing return, which looks onto the road, has two ground-floor 20th-century windows, one belonging to the outshut and one first-floor 2-light casement.

Inside the right-hand heated room, there is a plain axial beam and a chamfered lintel above the fireplace. The left-hand room features slightly chamfered intersecting ceiling beams and a 20th-century lintel to the fireplace. The timber framing consists of slender timbers with straight-cut jowls for the wall posts. The roof is a common rafter construction, with an added ridge board. In the north-west corner of the outshut, the roof is supported by a tie beam with raking queen struts.