Bourne Place

Bourne Place, formerly known as Mill Place, is a private house located on Manor Park Lane. The building dates from the 18th century and is two stories with an attic. It features colour-washed brick on a projecting plinth, with string courses at the first-floor level and above the first-floor windows. There is a moulded and dentilled brick eaves cornice and a hipped old tile roof. Originally, the left half of the house had three windows on the first floor and two on the ground floor, while the right half was altered in the 19th century to include an angular bay and a more modern gabled porch with a six-panel central door. The mill building on the right side is now part of the house and has one window on the first floor and a two-light casement window with shutters below, as well as one window on the return front facing the road at the attic and first-floor levels. There is also a parallel but lower half-hipped range behind. Bourne Place is part of a group of listed buildings that include Willey Mill, Hatch Mill, and High Mill, which are all notable for their architectural interest and historical significance as reminders of the area's past as a major corn market in southern England.