Ivymill Farmhouse And Mill

Ivy Mill Farmhouse and Mill is a 15th-century farmhouse with a later 19th-century farmhouse attached, and incorporates a former mill. The mill has dressed limestone to its ground floor and English garden wall bond brick to its first floor, with a pantiled roof. The farmhouse is constructed of Flemish bond brick with a plain tiled roof and brick stacks. The mill is a two-storey, four-window structure set at right angles to the 19th-century farmhouse. A deep chamfered pointed doorway is located to the left of the mill's centre, featuring a 19th-century two-light segmental-headed casement and a two-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement to its left. There is a segmental-headed planked stable door and a single-light, deep chamfered light to the right, with a blocked doorway at the end bay. An offset string course is present on the left side. The first floor features four panes of sash windows, single-light casements, and a two-light casement with a planked loading bay door to the right. The right return side has a planked door to the ground floor and weatherboarded cladding to the first floor. The rear of the mill is partly timber-framed, with planked doors and blocked windows, and an outshut is attached to the right. The interior is said to contain a three-bay roof, partly smoke-blackened, and retains gearing and millstones from the water mill to the right-hand end. The water wheel has been dismantled. The two-storey, three-window 19th-century farmhouse has a six-panelled door within a gabled porch, flanked by three-light segmental casements, alongside three-light and two-light casements to the first floor. The mill likely represents the remains of a 15th-century hall house, later adapted into a mill and extensively altered. The mill ceased operation in the 1940s.