Painswick Mill House

Painswick Mill House is a large detached house, largely dating to the 17th century, with 20th-century extensions. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with a stone slate roof. The house has an L-shaped plan, with a large, flat-roofed extension projecting beyond the south arm of the 'L'. The front, facing the road, is two storeys and has an attic. The left side features a two-storey, two-windowed three-light casement extension. To the right, a coped gable has three-light stone mullion casements to the ground and first floors, and a blocked opening to the attic, set off-centre to the right; the roof sweeps down over the extension. A low gable is set back behind the flat roof, with a two-light casement. The return to the left has a coped gable with a large external stack for twin diagonal flues, followed by a 20th-century wing and then the cross-gable of the original block, featuring a three-light casement under a hood mould.

The garden front is symmetrical, with two gables at ground level. It has two five-light 20th-century casements and a central blocked doorway. The first floor has a 4:3:4-light recessed ovolo-mould mullioned casement arrangement, and the gables have three-light recessed hollow-chamfered mould casements. A continuous string course runs above the ground and first floors, with hood moulds to the attics; the coped gables continue as parapets.

The north front has a gable on the right with a large opening and a plank door, set under a continuous string course. Above is a two-light casement set low to the left, and two further two-lights to the continuous string course. There are two small single lights to the gable, with a coped top and a single diagonal stack. Set back to the left is a similar coped gable with a two-light casement under a hood mould, below which is a single-storey wing.

Internally, several good fireplaces remain, including a 16th-century flat four-centre arched stone surround to the drawing room, with a heavy overmantel featuring a decorative frieze. An adjoining room has a small square opening fireplace, and on the first floor is a fireplace with an overmantel to a guilloche frieze and an 18th-century ovolo-mould surround. The staircase, with good-formed balusters and a newel, leads to the top level, though the staircase itself is mainly 20th-century. A panel and muntin screen is at the entrance to the drawing room. The roof structure was renewed, and a substantial renovation occurred around 1920. The house is associated with the former mill, one of several in the Painswick Valley.