Wresden Farmhouse, Mill And Attached Barn

Wresden Farmhouse, Mill, and attached barn, dating from 1668 and 1687, with a 19th-century wing and barn. The building is constructed of limestone rubble with a stone slate roof, and concrete tiles to the former mill unit. The original house is a plain gabled building with a cross passage, approached on the north side by a two-storey porch. A large return wing was added to the west, and a two-storey mill attached to the east gable; beyond this, at a right angle at the east end, is the barn.

The north front, which serves as the entrance, has two circular "pitching eyes" above a mullioned casement in the mill section. The house section features two-light stone mullioned casements, with a stopped drip, to the left of the gabled porch. The upper level is pargetted with a date stone reading "IEE 1687”. An old plank door is set in a heavy molded frame, and the porch entry incorporates some 17th-century turned balusters. The south front has two storeys with three windows to the first floor and four to the floor below, featuring 2 or 3-light casements. The mill section on the right has four modern windows. A tablet on the south gable records “1668 IE Rebuilt 1845.”

The interior includes a large fireplace with a fireback dated 1684, a staircase by the stack at the upper level, and a bowed collar roof. A built-in Jacobean bed is also present. The building was the mill of John Eyles, who died in 1731 at the age of 91, and was the first maker of Spanish Cloth in Uley. The mill is described as “one of the oldest in Gloucestershire”.

The barn comprises three bays with a half-hipped north end, a gabled entrance, a pair of old plank doors on peg hinges, and slits to the south gable.