The Mill House

The Mill House is a house with a 16th-century core, potentially of even earlier origin, that was substantially re-clad and extended in the mid 17th century in an “Artisan-Mannerist” style. Later, 19th-century extensions were added, and 20th-century restoration and additions have occurred at both ends. The original timber-framed structure is now clad in sandstone rubble with brick quoins and dressings to the rear, while the front is rendered on the ground floor and tile-hung above, with some tiles in a fishscale pattern. Brick extensions are also present. The roofs are tiled, of varying heights.

The rear, originally the entrance front, is composed of three gabled ranges. The inner gable is shaped and lower than the outer Dutch gables, which feature brick dentilled pediments. A stack is located at the right end, and another at the rear. There is a brick plinth, brick plat bands over the ground and first floors on the left-hand gable, and a brick string course coping above. A corbelled string course runs over the ground floor to the right, where Ionic plasters of rubbed bricks with canted capitals support a full entablature extending across the first floor; a brick keystone is in the centre. The rear gables have one attic leaded casement window each, while the first floor has two cambered-head windows to the left. A four-light “cross” window sits centrally and to the right, with two ground floor windows to the left and one to the right. A glazed door is located to the right of centre and to the left, flanked by brick piers with stepped tops and a flat stone porch hood. A single-storey, hipped roof brick extension is on the right end, and a slate roofed extension projects to the front left featuring sash windows and an attached pump.

The front of the house, facing the street, has a projecting gabled cross wing to the right, with cusped and pierced bargeboards under a spiked finial. A large ridge stack is to the left, with a further stack at the left end. A plat band runs over the ground floor to the left, and a moulded eaves board sits above. The windows have diamond-pane, leaded glazing, and glazed doors. A 20th-century extension is also present.

Internally, some framing with rendered infill and paneling remains. A fine early 17th-century staircase features rusticated newel posts and pierced splat balusters, similar to the surviving staircase in Slyfield Manor.