Mill Farmhouse

Mill Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates back to the 16th century, with improvements made in the late 16th to early 17th century and further alterations in the 17th century. The building was thoroughly modernised around 1972. It features plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks topped with 20th-century brick and a slate roof. Originally, it was a three-room-and-through-passage house facing southeast, with an inner room on the left (southwest) end. An additional small one-room cottage was added in the early to mid-17th century to serve the room at the right (northeast) end.

The layout includes a small unheated inner room, a hall with a large axial stack backing onto the passage, a rear lateral stack for the service room, and a projecting end stack for the cottage extension. The front has a vaguely balanced five-window arrangement, all of which are 1972 casements with glazing bars. Slightly left of center is the front passage door, a circa 1972 replacement with a contemporary slate-roofed porch, and there is a secondary cottage door at the right end. The porch is gable-ended.

Inside, the inner room was largely rebuilt around 1972. The hall features a 16th-century oak side-pegged jointed cruck roof truss of large scantling, though evidence of smoke-blackening cannot be verified due to the inaccessibility of the roof space. There is a large volcanic stone fireplace with a chamfered oak lintel and an inserted Bideford cloam oven. A roughly chamfered axial beam likely floored the hall in the 17th century, and there are stairs added to the rear of the passage around 1972. The service room appears to have been refurbished in the late 17th to early 18th century, featuring a chamfered and run-out stopped cross beam and a rubble fireplace now with a replacement oak lintel.

In the cottage, the half beams across each crosswall have hollow-chamfer and ovolo-mouldings with keeled step stops, and the volcanic ashlar fireplace has a plain oak lintel, which may be a replacement. The stair turret projecting to the rear includes a repositioned early 17th-century tiny oak two-light window. The roof over the service room and cottage is from the 20th century. Notably, 17th-century panelling and a small early 17th-century oak three-light window with trefoil-arch heads were removed around 1972; the panelling was sold, and the window was relocated to Withy Windle Cottages in Puddington.