Washbrook Farm

Washbrook Farm is a former mill and mill house, now a farmhouse, dating to the late 17th or early 18th century, with additions from the mid-19th century, and possibly incorporating earlier fabric. It is constructed of squared and coursed limestone with concrete tile roofing. The building comprises a four-storey mill building at a lower level, set alongside a three-storey, narrow mill house situated slightly higher.

The downstream front features, to the left, a largely plain mill house with a 20th-century casement window and a 20th-century glazed door leading to a half-basement level. To the right is a three-bay mill with two- or three-light recessed stone-mullioned windows with iron casements. These windows have stopped hoods at the lower ground, ground and first floor levels; two upper windows lack hoods. A long 20th-century dormer window with three steel casements is positioned to the extreme right. Centrally, a 20th-century door is set within a chamfered surround with a slightly cambered, deep plain stone lintel and hood. The left-hand gable features deeply recessed 12-pane sash windows to the right and a 20th-century casement within a former door opening to the left.

The upstream side is two-storeys with a basement to the mill. The ground levels have been raised, and centrally is a blocked and partially concealed door opening with a 16th-century moulded surround and a richly carved lintel, including a coat of arms, all beneath a dropped hood and a bulls-eye plaque within a rectangular setting. To the left of this is a 20th-century stop with a landing, incorporating a 20th-century bolection mould door surround including a carved lintel bearing the date 1691 and the initials HWA. Low to the right, a half-buried two-light casement is visible; at the main level is a three-light 20th-century mullioned casement, a two-light chamfered mullion at the eaves above a blocked opening, and a three-light window with hood over a blocked, similarly half-buried window. A 12-pane sash window is set within a mid-19th-century extension. A stone stack is located at the junction between the mill and mill house.

The interior has been substantially modified, with many floor changes, and no original staircase was found. The roof was not inspected. This is a complex building requiring further investigation.