Mill Farmhouse

SEMINGTON LITTLETON MILL LANE ST 96 SW (north side) 5/202 Mill Farmhouse GV II

Farmhouse. Late C16, altered late C18. Close-studded timber- framing with painted brick nogging, front rebuilt and extended in rubble stone, stone slate hipped roof, partly replaced in tiles to rear, stone and brick stacks. L-plan; 4-bay C16 range with C18 short wing. Two-storey, 3-window C18 front. Central door with 6 fielded panels in gabled stone porch, 3-light casement either side. First floor has 3-light and single-light casements. Right return has single-light attic casement, C19 lean-to extension attached to rear of C18 addition. Left return; large lateral stone stack with gable to right of centre, rubble stone rebuild to right, close- studding timber-frame to left with blocked door, 4-light and 2- light ground floor casements, 2-light and 3-light first floor casements, hipped attic dormer moved here from left gable end C20. Single-storey former bakehouse to left, probably C19, with C20 timber-framed porch with planked door, gable end of main range tile-hung. Rear of C16 range has lean-to extension, first floor tile-hung. Interior has timber-framed partitions; square-panelled, chamfered beams, planked doors. Unusual decorated ceilings in C16 ground and first floor south rooms, diagonal lattice arranged with thin moulded wooden ribs, each rectangle about 40cm long. This feature clearly predates the C18 addition, but its date is uncertain. Original roof of two bays plus hips; collar and tie-beam trusses, central truss also has queen struts, two tiers of butt purlins, the upper with curved windbracing. Property of Duke of Somerset until 1940s.

Listing NGR: ST9130460630