Miller'S Cottage At Ashton Mill

SX 88 SW 5/28 11.11.52

ASHTON LOWER ASHTON Miller's Cottage at Ashton Mill

GV II

Cottage. Probably early C17. Whitewashed rendered cob and stone rubble; thatched roof, gabled at right end, left cross wing half-hipped to front and rear; large projecting end stack to cross wing with very tall chimney shaft, internal stack to front end of cross wing, stack to outshut. Plan: Not entirely clear as interior not inspected at time of survey (1986) but appears to be single depth, 2 rooms wide, the left hand room heated by the projecting stack roofed at right angles to the right hand room which has a rear outshut with a catslide roof. Interior said to be altered in the late C20 following a flood: ground floor ceilings raised. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1 window front; roof half hipped to the front at the left and eaves thatch eyebrowed over a C19 2-light timber casement with glazing bars to the right. Front door to left with a C20 thatched porch carried on posts with a stone rubble plinth; 2-light C20 timber casement with glazing bars to ground floor right. The left return (west), visible from the Chudleigh Road across the River Teign is very picturesque with the half-hipped roof to the right of the projecting stack and the thatched catslide of the outshut to the left. A single- storey slate-roofed office with a rear lean-to adjoins the cottage at the right end. Interior: not inspected but said to retain one roof truss with curved principals, probably a jointed cruck. An attractive irregular thatched cottage forming a group with the mill.

Listing NGR: SX8425184315