Mill House

WIMBORNE ST GILES SU 01 SW and SU 0311 WIMBORNE ST GILES' VILLAGE

13/113 and 6/113 Mill House (formerly 15.3.55 listed as Brook House)

GV II

Possibly originally a paper mill, an inn in the C19, now a private house. English-bond brickwork with tiled roofs and gable copings. Brick projecting stack with 2 diagonally set flues bearing traces of arabesque decoration in cement above. Further stack with 4 clustered flues on the ridge, right of centre. Near symmetrical. 2 storeys and attics, 6 bays. 2 central bays are surmounted by a gable with coping, apex finial and brick kneelers. Much restored stone mullioned windows with square-headed lights and labels. Those to the ground floor have sunk-chamfered surrounds and those to the upper floor are ovolo-moulded. Gable has similar 3-light window. Central elliptical-headed chamfered stone doorway. A mill race formerly passed under the left-hand end of the structure.

Internal features (RCHM): left ground floor rooms have intersecting ceiling beams, now cased but said to be unmoulded; central room has open fireplace with plain timber bressummer and lightly chamfered stone jambs; first floor rooms have plain beams resting on shaped brackets; roof of 4 plain collar- beam trusses. (RCHM, Dorset, vol V, p 98, no. 14. Newman, J and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p 470).

Listing NGR: SU0300611992