Mill Cottage

Mill Cottage is a house dating to the late 16th century, with subsequent alterations and additions. The walls are of rubble construction, with a thatched roof featuring a ridge stack and a gable stack to the right. A rear wing is rendered and has a double Roman tiled roof. The house follows a through-passage plan. The front elevation has 1½ storeys, with a 2-light casement to the left on the ground floor, a 3-light and a single-light casement to the right, all replacements from the 20th century. A central door has raised fillets and bears the inscription "Thanks be to God" and “RWB/1796” scratched into the wood, set within a chamfered pointed arched wooden frame. An eyebrow dormer on the right side of the front features a 2-light casement. On the right return, an oven projects, and a timber member is visible across a wall above it; a small single-light window is found at first-floor level to the right. The roof appears to have been raised, evident in a line in the gable stonework. Attached to the rear right is a 1½-storey addition with a single-light and a 3-light casement to the right. The left return has two 2-light casements of the 20th century at ground floor and one at first floor. The rear of the main house includes a 2-light casement, a door, a small 2-light eyebrow dormer above the door, and a small, flat-roofed 20th-century addition in the angle to the left with a plate-glass window. A rear block has a 3-light casement on both the ground and first floors on its inner side, along with a 20th-century French window and a 2-light casement under the eaves. Internally, the passage has a heavy, chamfered spine beam with run-out stops to the left, and a door within a chamfered frame with a pointed segmental head, possibly reset. A door to the right is within a plain frame. A room to the right features a heavy lintel above the end fireplace, with an oven recess to the rear, and a centrally placed beam, suggesting it was originally unheated. A room to the left has similar beams and a fireplace (serving the ridge stack) with a deep chamfered lintel and mantel. The replacement winder stair is situated behind a door at the rear of the room.