Scott'S Mill Farmhouse

Scott's Mill Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century. It is constructed from timber-frame, rubble stone, and red brick, topped with stone slate roofs. The building is two storeys high and has an L-shaped main range with end stacks to the cross wing. The cross wing was refronted in red brick in the late 18th century and features beaded stone mullion windows, with three-light windows on each side of the door in a 20th-century lean-to porch, and 2-light windows above, along with a small central sash window. The brickwork shows a straight joint to the left of the first-floor centre and has an exposed post to the right. The left end gable is a rubble stone original chimney gable, while the right gable is timber-framed with an inserted stack, and the framing is exposed in the gable with wall-posts visible below. There are loading doors in the gable. The rear wall is rendered. The range to the right of the timber-framed gable has a red brick front, but one angle post is exposed. It features a ground floor door in a gabled brick porch and a window to the right. The rear is also rendered. There is a lower addition to the right with an end stack, rendered walls, a front 20th-century brick extension, and a rear hipped eaves dormer with 20th-century windows.

Inside, the cross wing has a timber-lintel fireplace with ashlar sides, chamfered beams, and tie-beam and collar roof trusses that were altered in the 18th or early 19th century. The tie-beams were cut and reset lower with queen posts, and inserted trusses were added between the originals. Historically, Scott's Mill was part of the estates of Stanley Abbey before the 16th century, let to H. Goldney, a clothier, in 1526 and to J. Scott in 1554. An early 17th-century record mentions a house of three bays. The Scott family held the property until 1744, after which it was owned by the Palmer family until the early 19th century. The mill building that once stood on the opposite side of the Marden River was demolished in 1987.