Mills Platt is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. House. 3 related planning applications.
Mills Platt
- WRENN ID
- tattered-nave-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house dating back to the 17th century, constructed of rubble stone and featuring a stone-tiled roof with coped gables and a ridge stack on the rear wing. It is arranged in an L-shape. The earliest part of the building is located at the east end of the rear wing, dating to the mid-17th century, with a south front featuring a three-window range of recessed chamfered mullion windows. The upper section has dormer gables. Dripstones are present over all windows, except those in the right-end bay. A plank door sits within a chamfered surround to the left of the end bay. The windows are casement style, incorporating some leaded fixed lights.
To the left of the south front, a straight joint marks the addition of a single window range. A dormer gable above this section has a recessed ovolo-moulded window with a hoodmould, while the ground floor features a five-light mullion window. This was originally a two-light window, extended later and featuring a stone lintel with a bolection-moulded design, incorporating a carved roundel frieze which appears to be a reused door or fireplace lintel. A straight joint indicates the presence of the west cross wing. An attic window is ovolo-moulded with a hood. The first floor has two recessed cyma-moulded two-light windows under a single hood, and a similar two-light window is on the ground floor, along with a door within a flush cyma-moulded surround, including a shallow porch with slab sides and scrolled brackets to the pediment hood.
The west front exhibits two dormer gables; the left one has a recessed chamfered mullion window and hood, and the right one has a gable stack and a recessed cyma-moulded window with a hood. The ground floor features three-light and two-light recessed cyma-moulded mullion windows, with a dripstone over the three-light window and a hood over the two-light window. The north end wall has a recessed chamfered two-light ground floor window. A hipped stair tower is located in the rear north angle, with a two-light window on the upper level and a single light below.
To the right of the stair tower is a single window range, featuring a dormer gable and incised initials "W/S/E 1694", along with a recessed cyma-moulded window and hood. A 20th-century lean-to is present, containing a reset two-light north window and a reset east oak plank door. To the left is a former doorway with a hood, now containing a 20th-century window. A straight joint marks the boundary to an earlier range. One dormer gable and a larger gable on the left both have two-light recessed hollow-moulded windows. The ground floor has a 20th-century window within a chamfered former doorcase, a two-light recessed ovolo-moulded window with a hood, and another 20th-century lean-to. The house was marked on a map by F. Allen dated 1630.
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