The Square

The Square is a miller's house that has been converted into two dwellings. It was built in 1778, as indicated by a datestone, and has undergone alterations and extensions in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed from herringbone-tooled sandstone and features a pantile roof. It has a two-cell direct-entry plan with doors on opposite sides, and later extensions added to the left, right, and rear.

The front of the building is two stories high with a single-window layout and a central projecting gabled porch. To the right, there is a lower two-storey extension with a lean-to outbuilding, and a single-storey extension to the left. The entrance to No 1 is a four-panel door located in the projecting porch, which has a raised round-arched surround and a blind Gothick fanlight above, accessed by stone steps. There is a six-pane fixed light in the porch to the left of the door. Above the porch, the datestone is inscribed with "W. R." (or B) and features an incised shell between the initials and the date below, with a shell carved in high relief on each side.

The entrance to No 2 is a boarded door beneath a divided overlight in the lean-to outbuilding to the right. The ground-floor windows are four-pane sashes, while the first floor has a 20th-century top-hung window in the main front and a two-light, large-pane horizontal sliding sash in the right extension. The building has coped gables and shaped kneelers, with end stacks on the main roof and an end right stack on the right extension. The left gable wall features a fire window with a herringbone-tooled lintel.

Inside, both floors of the house have exposed chamfered beams. No 1 retains a bressumer in the room to the left, and there is a fine interior door in No 1 with bifurcated strap hinges.