Bleach Mill Farmhouse And Attached Outbuilding

The property is a farmhouse, now a house, with an attached outbuilding, incorporating a former house, dated "CT 1778". The attached outbuilding has origins in the 17th century, with later alterations. It was built for Charles Turner. The 18th-century work is of coursed squared stone, herringbone-tooled, with a pantile roof, kneelers, copings, ridges, and brick stacks. The main range is two storeys and two bays, with a projecting porch on the right, in front of a single-storey former house/outbuilding range that is partially incorporated into the main house. The porch has a blocked door and an inserted 20th-century gabled door within a wooden porch, flanked on each floor by two-light windows with 19th-century four-pane sashes. Original openings have lintels with raised keystones, some dated, and with projecting sills. An eaves band is present, along with shaped kneelers. Rebuilt brick end stacks mark the corners. The attached range to the right has two distinct builds, marked by punch-dressed quoins, with herringbone-tooled quoins at the right end. The earliest section of the attached range has an inserted door and window within a mid-20th-century porch, a taking-in hatch now a window, a wide board stable door, and a slit vent with the initials "TB" to its right. The right-hand section of the attached range is of different stonework and features a door with a reused chamfered lintel and a shaped kneeler. On the rear elevation of the main range are two windows with keyed lintels, and an inserted window between them on the ground floor. The first floor has a long keyed lintel over two small windows towards the left. The lower range to the left has a stable door, an opening for former horse-engine gearing, a blocked door, and an inserted window. The left return of the main range features a six-pane sash with a keyed lintel on the first floor. Inside the main range, the parlour has moulded joists and floorboards, board and panelled doors with old hinges, a winder stair with square newels, stick balusters, and a moulded handrail. On the first floor are original fireplaces and grates, and a dentilled cornice in the left-hand room. The earliest section of the attached range, formerly a house, retains a blocked quoined doorway with a deep lintel, and a blocked two-light chamfered mullion window above, with the lintel removed. The farmhouse was remodelled by Charles Turner as part of a scheme of agricultural improvements. The initials in the outbuilding may be those of Thomas Boswell, who lived there in the late 18th century.