General Stores

SO 61 NE 6/167 23.9.55

MITCHELDEAN MILLEND STREET (south side) General Stores (formerly listed as Mill End Street, Post office and house occupied by Mr. R. C. Roberts)

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House and shop in row; C15 to C19, with later alterations; rendered stone on timber-framing to front, coursed, squared stone to right-hand wing; roughly squared stone to rear: asbestos slate roofs. U-plan, each wing one room deep, courtyard open to rear, all 2 storey. Street facade: on left 4-bay, 2 window building: ground floor C20 door to right of centre: 2-light casement window to right, 15-pane horizontal window on left, 2-panes top hung casements, both windows early C19. Jetty to first floor, main beams only exposed, giving 2 wide, 2 narrow bays. 2 late C20 2- light casement windows first floor. Roof continuous with section on right and Church Cottage on left (q.v.). To right, 4-bay building, ground floor late C20 shop front: jetty higher than to left, slight projection on left, tapering to nothing on right. First floor 2-light casement window on left, with 2 windows covered over centre and right. At right-hand end stone gable of one-and- a-half storey wing, said to have been a malthouse. Ground floor double boarded doors to right of centre, with timber lintel; square, boarded-up window in gable. On right return remains of stone steps up to former door to upper floor. A row of beeboles formed in rear gable. Internally: left section, large gable chimneys remain below roof level: on ground floor at left end a panelled door with butterfly hinges to a cupboard. Exposed chamfered beams in ceiling. on first floor some close-studded timber-framing exposed at rear internally. Roof 3 collar trusses, 2 with double collars, short king-post, and principals cut short at upper collar. Right-hand, shop section: exposed, moulded cross-beams to left part of ground floor ceiling: first floor ceiling over part, inserted before C18. Sortie timber-framing exposed internally in front wall. One closed roof truss, 3 open, latter arch-braced collar trusses, one with cambered tie beam and braces to walls: top triangle foiled. fling to right 7-bay, collar trusses with angle struts: one truss only originally had a tie beam. Originally 2 separate buildings, each with rear wing, to form L-plan, now combined in one use and ownership.

Listing NGR: SO6634918535