Bottreaux Mill Tenement And Adjoining Stable

This is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to the early 17th century, with possible origins in the early 16th century. It has undergone alterations in the 17th and 18th centuries, along with additions from the mid-to-late 19th century. The front and sides are cement-rendered, while the rear outshut is of stone rubble. The adjoining stable is primarily of rubble with red-brick dressings, featuring a gable-ended roof covered in corrugated asbestos, and a corrugated-iron roof over the stable itself. The stacks are rendered with red-brick top stages; the front stack has chamfered offsets.

The original plan likely comprised three rooms and a cross-passage, facing south. The house may have initially included a hall to the right with an external lateral stack, and a service room to the left with an external end stack, separated by a cross-passage. There may have been an inner room at the upper end of the hall, which was later demolished, with the first floor and stacks added in the 17th century. Alternatively, the house may have always consisted of only two rooms. An early 19th-century two-storey outshut extends to the rear, with a single-story lean-to to the right. A late 19th-century stable adjoins the house to the left (west).

The front facade is asymmetrical, featuring 2- and 3-light wooden casement windows. The hall window on the ground floor to the right has small panes. A 20th-century boarded door is located to the left of the front stack. The right-hand lean-to incorporates a doorway to the front. The rear outshut has a 2-light wooden casement with leaded glass on the left, a boarded loft door with old strap hinges on the right, and two ground-floor 2-light wooden casements with segmental brick heads, alongside a central 20th-century boarded door with a segmental brick head. The stable has a segmental-headed window opening and a segmental-headed 2-leaf boarded door.

An inspection of the interior, conducted in October 1987, revealed a ceiling in the hall with a heavily-moulded cross beam and half beam, and plain joists. The service room to the left contains an open fireplace and a chamfered spine beam with run-out stops. The building demonstrates group value through its agricultural history and subsequent evolution.