Job'S Mill

This is a 17th-century mill house, which has been altered in the 19th century and mid-20th century, and is now a detached house. It is constructed of rubble stone with a tiled roof featuring fishscale tiles, and has gable end stone stacks. The building is arranged in an "L" shape. The front elevation is two storeys high with five window bays. The windows are casements, many with mullions. A central three-storey gabled porch has a Tudor-arched stone doorway, a half-glazed door, and pointed side lights with sashes. To either side of the porch are a three-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement and flanking bays with two-light mullioned casements, the left-hand one in a blocked Tudor-arched opening. A brick segmental arch covers the mill race to the right-hand side bay. The first floor has five two-light mullioned casements, including one to the first floor of the porch, which has a hipped tiled canopy and a one-light casement to the gable. The roof has coped verges with kneelers. A return elevation has a two-light mullioned casement to the ground floor and a one-light casement to the first floor. A single-storey service range projects to the left of the front, and has two-light and one-light casements, as well as two gabled dormers with three-light casements. The rear elevation has a central double-glazed door with a cast-iron porch with fluted columns, two-light casements either side and to the side bays, the right-hand casement in a blocked Tudor-arched opening. The first floor includes central French windows to a cast-iron balcony and three-light mullioned casements either side, with two-light mullioned casements in the side bays. All casements have cast-iron latticed glazing, likely dating to the mid-19th century. The interior was altered in the 1950s for the 5th Marquess of Bath and includes several fireplaces brought from Longleat. These include an early 19th-century white marble surround with paterae and a fine marble surround with Rococo carving, purportedly from a former agent's house in Warminster, but originally from Longleat House. Surviving 17th-century paneling and doors feature cock's head hinges and butterfly hinges in the drawing room. The staircase has stick balusters, a wreathed and ramped handrail. Job's Mill originally operated as a grist mill, leased by the Everett family of clothiers during the 19th century, and ceased operation in the early 20th century.