Mill Lawn

Mill Lawn is a farmhouse, probably of the mid-17th century with additions from the later 17th century. The building was dated 1727, likely marking the time when the roof was raised in height and other alterations were undertaken. It has undergone further changes in the 19th and 20th centuries. The farmhouse is constructed of rendered and painted stone rubble with painted granite dressings. The roof is asbestos slate with gable ends. There is an axial stack with a brick shaft and a gable end stack to the right also with a brick shaft.

The plan is a 2-room arrangement with a central passage. The hall is positioned to the left and is heated from the axial stack that backs onto the passage. The lower end room to the right is heated from the gable end stack. Probably during the later 17th century, a hall bay was added to the rear left and a stair tower to the rear right of the hall, entered from the hall itself. Probably in the early 18th century, a single storey outshut was added to the rear of the lower end room, probably serving as an unheated dairy. At the same time, the roof level was raised. In the late 20th century, the outshut was extended upwards to become 2 storeys.

The exterior is 2 storeys with an asymmetrical front. The passage features a 20th-century gabled porch with inner double doors. To the right is a 16-pane sash window at ground floor with a cambered brick arch; the first floor has two 20th-century windows. At the upper end, the wall steps forward with a glazed door and a 20-pane sash with cambered brick arch at ground floor. A 2-light casement window in a gabled dormer is dated in the plaster as DTK 1727. The left end has a 20th-century 2-light casement at both ground and first floor. The right end features an 18th-century external stack and a single attic light. The outshut has a 20th-century window at first floor.

At the rear is a 2-storey gabled hall bay with a 3-light chamfered granite window at ground floor and a similar 2-light granite window at first floor. A 20th-century window is positioned at ground floor to the left. A catslide roof over an addition at the rear of the passage encloses the stair tower and blocks a stair light which remains visible internally; this addition has a glazed 20th-century door and single light. The dairy outshut to the left is 2 storeys with a gable end and 20th-century windows at both ground and first floor.

The interior features a passage with a stone paved floor. The lower end room to the right has a slate paved floor and a gable end fireplace that was rebuilt in the 20th century. From the passage, there is a round-arched chamfered granite doorway leading to the hall. The hall contains chamfered beams with step and run-out stops and a coffin-hatch above the fireplace. The fireplace has plain granite jambs and lintel. In the rear wall of the hall is a blocked arched granite doorway and a blocked half-arch, possibly originally a doorway to the stair tower; the function of the half-arch is uncertain. The stair is a 20th-century replacement, probably not in the original form. At first floor, the feet of the principal rafters are visible, chamfered and curved. A rear lateral corridor contains a recess which may be the original site of the stair. The roof over the hall has 2 early trusses remaining with halved and pegged principal rafters, chamfered collars with a pronounced camber, also halved and pegged, and trenched purlins. The roof over the hall bay is only partially remaining, formerly having a halved and dovetailed collar which has been replaced by an upper collar, also halved, chamfered and slightly cambered, with chamfered principal rafters. The roof over the lower end has 2 18th-century trusses, probably of 1727, with halved and pegged construction and collars.