Mill Cottage

Mill Cottage is a house that likely dates back to the early 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century and again in the 20th century. The exterior features colour-painted rendered stone and cob, topped with an asbestos slate roof that has gable ends. A tall rubble lateral hall stack is located at the front, with a drip and offsets, and it has been heightened in brick. There is also a brick shaft at the rear that heats the lower end of the house.

The layout consists of a three-room through-passage plan, originally designed as an open hall house. A floor was inserted in the 17th century, during which a rounded stair turret was added to the rear of the hall. The building has two storeys and features a two-window range with two light casements, six panes per light on the left and two panes per light on the right. A gabled slated porch leads to the through-passage. An old nine-paned fixed light window has been inserted at the angle of the right side of the stack, overlooking the doorway. There is a 20th-century three-light hall window with three panes per light and a stable door at the left end. Additionally, there are small two-light timber mullion windows with semi-circular arched heads to each light.

Inside, there is a 17th-century chamfered door surround and an old plank door leading to the upper end of the first-floor corridor. Original joists and stop-chamfered beams are preserved in the hall and inner room. A single raised cruck truss remains over the lower end of the hall, showing smoke-blackening that extends over the lower end to the single tier of surviving threaded purlins and diagonally threaded ridge purlins. The collar of the truss is plastered over but appears to be slightly cranked and is morticed and tenoned into the soffits of each of the blades. The division between the upper end and hall is formed by a solid cob wall partition that rises to full height, with no visible smoke-blackening on the original roof structure beyond the partition, suggesting that the inner room and upper chamber may be 17th-century additions.