The Old Mill

SU 85NE CAMBERLEY & FRIMLEY U.D. OLD GUILDFORD ROAD FRIMLEY GREEN 7/47 The old Mill

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Mill, converted with house attached. Mill tower late C18, house by Frank Abbot 1914, altered on garden front for his daughter Grace Willis in 1928. Brown and red brick with sandstone dressings to house; plain tiled roofs, conical over tower, hipped roofs, swept over main house. Tower to right end with L shaped house attached to left, gable end wing projecting to front left forming courtyard in re-entrant angle. Two storeys with multiple ridge stacks, arcaded panelling on shafts and oversailing tops to stacks to right of centre and left end; quadruple diagonal stacks to left of centre with end stack on projecting wings. Regular fenestration, 2 leaded casements to first floor right of entrance front, 2 further first floor windows to right hand side of projecting wing. Arched recessed porch to right end with double studded doors under billeted lintel.

Garden front: Two storeys with attics under central flat roof dormer and in gables to left and right of centre, Regular front with two storey angle bays to either ends under brick parapets with diamond patterning. Stone dressed mullion and transomed windows with leaded lights, four 3-light across first floor, centre light arched on first floor window in right hand angle bay. Double glazed leaded doors to centre under arched head with flanking margin lights. Further arched door to left in brick porch to Mill tower. Central stone plaque with gilded decoration.

THE WINDMILLS OF SURREY AND INNER LONDON - K.G. Farries and M.T. Mason. 1906 p.101, i11. 39.

Listing NGR: SU8963456194