Millmans Farmhouse

Millmans Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse, largely dating to the late 16th century, with an extension of 1660 and early 19th-century alterations. The front is roughcast rendered, while elsewhere there is painted marlstone rubble; brick chimneys rise through the plain tile roof. It is two storeys with an attic. A wing on the north side projects forward to the right, and a central stair wing extends to the rear.

The front of the north wing has a blank gable end that projects, and a small, flat-roofed projection in the angle with the main range, containing a spiral staircase, likely originally with a small gable. The main range to the left has a three-window front with 20-pane sashes. A central doorway has a flat timber porch hood supported by brackets, sheltering a six-panel door. Two cellar casements are located to the left of the door. The north end has a central timber mullioned casement on each floor, a five-light opening on the ground floor and a four-light opening above. The south end has a gable with a blocked ground floor window with a hoodmould, which features a datestone dated 1660, possibly reset from elsewhere on the building and now partly obscured by an attached conservatory. An off-centre blocked upper floor window with a hoodmould is also present, as is a ridge-mounted brick chimney.

The rear gable of the stairwing has several blocked windows with hoodmoulds. A row of three former window openings at upper floor level are visible, with a 19th-century casement in the centre. A central doorway to the wing has a four-panel door, and a projecting chimney stack is on the north side of the wing. There are two gables to the left elevation of the main range, each with a single-window casement. Ground-floor windows have been altered with 19th and 20th-century lean-to additions. The right gable has a leaded attic casement with a hoodmould and a further hoodmould to an opening below, now blocked by a lean-to. A single ground-floor 19th-century casement with a hoodmould is found to the range to the right of the stairwing.

The interior largely indicates origins in the late 16th century. An Elizabethan dog-leg staircase, with polygonal finials to the newels and splat balusters, rises to the attic. A room at the south end appears to be an addition, possibly from 1660. Evidence suggests a former spiral staircase existed within a turret on the east front. The house is said to have been the residence of William Archard, clerk to John Smyth, around 1600; Smyth was surveyor to the Lords of Berkeley. A dovecote stands to the northwest (listed separately).