Mill House

Mill House is a house that belongs to Otterton Mill, with origins dating back to the 17th or 18th century, although it was largely rebuilt in the early 19th century. The main walls are made of plastered cob stone rubble footings, with stone rubble or brick stacks topped with 19th-century brick, and it has a pantile roof. The house has a double depth plan and faces south-south-west. The principal rooms are located at the front, while service rooms are in a narrow continuous rear outshot. The main block features a three-room-and-through-passage plan, with the passage situated between the center and right (eastern) rooms, and the stairs located to the left at the back in the outshot. The left front room is small and has its own entrance, suggesting it may have served as the mill office or a similar function. There is an axial stack between this room and the center room, and an end stack for the right front room. The left end stack serves the service outshot, which projects further than the main block at the right end. The house is two storeys tall with an irregular four-window front; the center and right three-window section is symmetrical around a central doorway. The early 19th-century six-panel door has reeded panel frames and an overlight, with a 12-pane sash directly above it, flanked by 16-pane sashes. At the left end, there is another identical door with an overlight and a blind window recess above. The eaves are deep and the roof is hipped at both ends, with the rear pitch extending over the outshot. The front corner of the projecting outshot is rounded and features a 20th-century door with a casement window with glazing bars above. Similar casements with glazing bars are found at the rear. The interior showcases only 19th-century joinery detail, and the original layout and details are well-preserved, with no evidence of earlier work exposed. Mill House, along with its garden walls, Otterton Mill, and its stables, forms a strong group on the western side of Otterton Village, which is home to many attractive listed buildings.