Brightleymill Farmhouse

Brightleymill Farmhouse is a farmhouse and former miller's house, now a private dwelling, likely built in the late 17th century, with extensions from the 18th and late 19th centuries. The structure features whitewashed rendered stone and cob, with unrendered stone rubble and brick dressings on the late 19th-century extension. It has a thatched roof with gable ends and stone rubble stacks, along with brick stacks at the front gable and across the rear angle, as well as a lateral brick and stone rubble stack.

The overall plan is L-shaped. Although later alterations have obscured the original late 17th-century layout, it may have originally consisted of one room, which now forms the projecting front wing. This wing has a dormer with a direct entry that is now blocked, and a staircase at the rear that has been removed. There is a solid stone rubble and cob partition between this wing and the rear room, which is heated by a fireplace located in the rear right-hand angle, possibly added in the 18th century.

In the late 19th century, a two-room kitchen and dairy extension was added at right angles to the left side of the original range. The kitchen has direct entry and is heated by a rear stack. During this time, the doorway into the original range was moved to the left, near the angle of the extension, providing access to a small entrance stair hall taken from the rear room of the original range. The building has two storeys, with late 19th and 20th-century fenestration consisting of all two-light casements. The original range features a two-light casement with six panes per light on each floor, leading to a large lean-to slate roof porch at the angle of the two ranges, which has two 20th-century doors. The 19th-century extension has two two-light casements on each floor, with various panes, brick quoins, and cambered brick lintels on the ground floor.

Inside, the room in the front wing displays a late 17th-century chamfered ceiling beam with hollow step stops and a chamfered fireplace lintel, also with a hollow step stop at the left end. There is a bread oven with a cast iron door and a creamery niche in the rear wall. The late 19th-century joinery is mainly intact, while the roof timbers over the original range were entirely replaced after a late 20th-century fire.