Bratton Mill

Bratton Mill is a house and former mill located in Bratton Clovelly. The house may contain some late 17th-century features and was extended in the 18th century, while the mill dates to around the late 18th century. It has stone rubble walls, which are rendered on the house, and an asbestos slate roof that is hipped at the left end of the house and gabled over the mill. There is a brick axial stack in the house, originally positioned at the gable end.

The house originally had a two-room and cross passage plan, with the left-hand room heated by a gable end stack. It was extended to the left in the 18th century, likely starting as a barn. The mill, which is later than the house, may have replaced an earlier structure. It is rectangular in plan, set at right angles, with a large room on each floor and the wheel housed within the rear in a separate compartment divided by a solid wall. The mill featured an overshot wheel, with the leat running in from the right, but it is now disused and the wheel has been removed.

The house is two storeys tall, while the mill was originally three storeys but has had its upper floors removed and is now single storey. The mill has a gable end with a two-window front, of which only the ground floor left-hand and second floor central windows retain their frames of 19th-century two-light casements. There is a wide doorway at the centre. The house is to the left, with its original part on the right, featuring a two-window front of 19th-century two-light casements with small panes. There is a central 20th-century plank door behind a 20th-century rusticated porch. The lower addition at the left-hand end has irregular small window openings, including a slit window at the left-hand end.

Inside the original house, there is a large open fireplace with a lintel obscured by an 18th-century wood surround and mantel. The mill has lost its original machinery and wheel.