Bratton Mill

BRATTON CLOVELLY BRATTON CLOVELLY SX 49 SE

7/18 Bratton Mill -

• II

House and former mill. The house may have some late C17 fabric extended in the C18 with the mill dating to the circa late C18. Stone rubble walls, rendered on the house. Asbestos slate roof hipped to the left end of the house, gabled to the mill. Brick axial stack to house, originally at gable end. The house originally had a 2-room and cross passage plan with the left-hand room heated by a gable end stack. It was extended to the left in the C18 although initially this addition was probably a barn. The mill is later than the house but may replace an earlier structure. It is at right angles of rectangular plan with a large room on each floor and the wheel housed within the structure at the rear in a separate compartment divided by a solid wall. Its wheel was overshot and the leat ran in from the right. The mill is now disused and its wheel has been removed. The house is 2 storeys; the mill was originally 3 storeys, but has had its upper floors floors removed and is now single storey. The Mill has a gable end 2-window front of which only the ground floor left-hand and second floor central window retain their frames of C19 2-light casements. Wide doorway at centre. The house is to its left, its original part to the right, has a 2-window front of C19 2-light casements with small panes. Central C20. Plank door behind C20 rusticated porch. Lower addition at left-hand end has irregular small window openings with a slit window at the left-hand end. Interior of original house has large open fireplace whose lintel is obscured by C18 wood surround and mantel. The mill has lost its original machinery and wheel.

Listing NGR: SX4673191977