Mill House Including Front Boundary Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. House. 2 related planning applications.
Mill House Including Front Boundary Railings
- WRENN ID
- final-fireplace-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill House is a house dating from the early to mid-17th century, with alterations and additions made in the early 19th century. The earlier section is timber-framed and mostly covered with peg tiles; the rear wall is built with Flemish bond red brick. The 19th-century portion is painted brick. Brick stacks and chimney shafts are present, and the front section has a slate roof while the rear retains a peg-tile roof.
The house has a double-depth plan and faces southwest. The main rooms are situated at the front, positioned on either side of a central entrance hall which contains the main staircase. These rooms have projecting end stacks. The original plan of the 17th-century section included three rooms. The narrow central room, possibly originally a passage, is now combined with a heated room. To the rear left is the former kitchen with a stack backing onto the front room, and to the rear right is an unheated service room which is now a kitchen.
The house is two storeys high, with attics over the 17th-century rear section. A single-storey bakehouse projects from the rear right.
The front facade is symmetrical, featuring a three-window arrangement with horned 16-pane sash windows. The central doorway has a 19th-century six-panel door behind a rebuilt trellis porch with a tented roof (constructed around 1980). The building has two gable-ended roof lines. The bakehouse has a hipped roof and a large, gabled oven housing.
The interior of the 17th-century section retains the original timber-framed structure. Larger rooms on both floors feature chamfered axial beams. The former kitchen fireplace has sandstone ashlar facing, but with a replacement oak lintel. The smaller fireplace in the chamber above retains its original oak lintel with a low Tudor arch. The roof consists of three uneven bays, supported by clasped side purlin tie-beam trusses with curving wind braces. The 19th-century front section contains contemporary joinery, including a straight flight staircase with a two-stick baluster balustrade on the landing.
A narrow front garden is enclosed by 19th-century cast iron railings, with plain rails and tubular standards with moulded finials. These railings continue northwestwards in front of the barn.
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