Rashleigh Mill Cottage Including Outbuilding To South East

SS 61 SE 1/72

WEMBWORTHY BRIDGE REEVE Rashleigh Mill Cottage including outbuilding to south-east

GV II

Farmhouse and adjoining outbuilding, former mill house. Probably C18. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble or cob stacks topped with C19 brick; thatch roof. Long low gable-ended range facing south-west alongside the road. The house at left (north-western) end has 2-room and central staircase plan. Left room has large projecting rear lateral stack and right room has axial stack between the room and adjoining outbuildings. Outshots to rear, parts of which may be original. Outshot to rear of right room has late C19-early C20 stack. The outbuildings at right (south-eastern) and comprise 3 byres or stores with haylofts over. 2 storeys. House has irregular fenestration, 4 windows on ground floor and 2 to first. All late C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars. The thatch eaves rise over first floor right end window. Roughly central C19 part-glazed 6-panel door with C20 monopitch and corrugated iron roofed hood. Left gable end has first floor casement with glazing bars. The thatch eaves drops down from house to the adjoining outbuildings. The left byre or store is blind to the front, that in centre has only a front door and that at right end has front ventilator and in the right gable end ground floor double doorway with loading hatch to hayloft over. Interior: of house shows mostly result of late C19 and C20 modernisations. Right room has exposed roughly-finished crossbeam, probably C18. Left room carpentry is plastered over and both fireplaces are blocked. Roof not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS6627013197