Mill Creek Cottage

Mill Creek Cottage is likely 18th century, or possibly earlier, with alterations from the early 19th century and late 20th century. The house is built of plastered stone rubble, with a slate roof that is hipped to the right and gable-ended to the left, and red clay tiles. A rendered stack with slate weathering is located at the left-hand end. The original layout appears to have been for two rooms, perhaps once a pair of cottages, with the right-hand side potentially incorporating a shop. A long wing at the rear of the right-hand end may have been a separate range of cottages but is now part of the main house. The front of the house presents a nearly symmetrical three-window facade. The first floor has three small 19th-century four-pane sash windows. The ground floor has an early to mid-19th-century twenty-pane sash window to the left, a wide fixed-light window to the right which might have originally been a small shop window with a doorway beside it, and a circa early 19th-century four-panel door, with flush bottom panels and fielded top panels, set in a doorcase with moulded pilasters. The right-hand end wall has a 19th-century four-pane sash window on the first floor and a 20th-century fixed-light window below. The rear wing has a higher eaves line and axial and gable-end chimneys. Inside, the small room on the left has an early 19th-century reeded fireplace and a fielded panel door. There may be earlier features of interest internally, including an early roof structure.