Hidon Mill

ST 11 SE CLAYHIDON 6/11 Hidon Mill - - II Detached house. Possibly C16 with later alterations. Random rubble chert; half hipped thatched roof. Originally a 3-room, through-passage plan house, the service end to the right of the passage. Victorian 2-storeyed extension to rear of hall and inner room. Outshut at rear of service end conceals large back oven and kiln bulge. Service end formerly heated by end stack (end wall rebuilt in mid C20); hall stack backs on to the passage. Inner room unheated. 2 storeys. Exterior: front: 3 window range; C18 3-light casement windows to 1st floor; some leading and saddle bars survive. Later 2- and 3-light casement windows to ground floor. Thatched porch. Attached to the front of the house at the left-hand end is a 3-bay rubble alcove with brick dressing with a sundial above. Rear outshut under catslide. C19 extension with horned sash window to 1st floor. Interior: not inspected; a report by Commander E H D Williams (March 1983) has the following information; service end with cross beam chamfered to the room side only and possibly forming the mantel beam of a smoke bay (Commander Williams conjects), the fireplace has a side oven with large curing kiln above. Rear passage door with 3-centred wooden frame. Partition between hall and inner room now gone, but the associated ceiling beam survives morticed into the roof truss. There are 4 trusses, 3 of them jointed curcks. Roof spaces not accessible when Commander Williams visited the building.

Listing NGR: ST1643614208