Capp Mill House

Capp Mill House is a large mill house dating to 1678, with the initials HSW carved into the stonework. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and has stone slate roofs. The building is a lofty, symmetrical cross-gabled structure, with a lower projecting wing to the back left.

The front elevation is two storeys and an attic, with four windows; the windows are mainly single-light, with an additional two-light window above the central porch. All windows have stopped hoods. The gabled porch features the date within a shield, a moulded door surround, a deep lintel block, and a hoodmould. Inside the porch are benches on either side, and an early plank door of fine quality. Oculi with decorated spandrels are located to the sides. The gables are coped and carry stacks with twin diagonal shafts and cappings.

The right return is three storeys and an attic, built to accommodate the fall in ground level. There is a single window, featuring three-light recessed chamfer mullion casements at three levels, and a two-light window to the gable, all with hood moulds. The gable is coped with a cross-roll saddle. The back elevation is three storeys and an attic, with twin gables, although the right gable is largely obscured by the projecting wing. To the left at ground floor are doorways flanked by two-light windows; at first floor a four-light window with a king mullion, above which is a three-light window, and a two-light window to the attic. The gable is coped with a cross-roll saddle. Between the gables are three small stair lights, and on the right is a coped gable with a single diagonal stack and two single lights to the attic.

The return wall of the projecting wing is two storeys and an attic, with a single window; it incorporates a three-light window at ground and first floors beneath a three-light gabled flush dormer. Adjoining the gable of the main block is a half-dormer. A large door opening is located far right. The end gable wall of the wing appears to have been rebuilt in squared and coursed stone, possibly representing a reduction in length, and features a two-windowed front of one over two over three-light casements, and a double diagonal stack to a coped gable.

The interior retains an A-frame roof with butt purlins. On the lower ground floor is a heavy early 18th-century bolection mould fireplace surround with a mantel, said to have been repositioned from a bedroom, and a similar surround in the projecting wing. In the north-east corner bedroom is a fluted pilaster door surround. The inner door to the porch is particularly fine. Originally the house served a woollen mill until 1729, and subsequently a saw mill. The mill building is now used for storage.