Millbank Farmhouse And Attached Outbuilding

Millbank Farmhouse and the attached outbuilding are a farmhouse and outbuilding that were built in two phases. The outbuilding and downhouse likely date from the early to mid-18th century, while the main house was partially rebuilt or refronted in the late 18th century. The buildings are constructed from coursed herring-bone-tooled sandstone, with the low end featuring larger stones. The low end has a pantiled roof, while the upper end has a Welsh slate roof, both topped with stone ridge, copings, and kneelers, and includes stone and brick chimneys. The layout follows a hearth-passage plan and consists of one and a half storeys with two bays for each part; the main house is wider, and the downhouse is lower. The entrance is through a boarded passage door on the right side of the downhouse, with a modern small casement window to the left on each floor. The outbuilding has two doorways, but the doors have been altered to create a three-leaf garage entrance; there is also a small hit-and-miss window on the left and a boarded loading door above. The front of the house is largely hidden by a dairy lean-to, likely from the 19th century, which reuses older stones. The rear elevation features a Yorkshire sash window in the downhouse to the right and a row of slit vents under the eaves farther right. The main house has two small modern casements on each floor. Inside, the house-place retains a heck and settle, but the fireplace is modern. The house and parlour, which are now combined, have large close-set chamfered full-width joists. There is a stair located through a door behind the parlour. The former downhouse, now a kitchen, includes a subsidiary stair leading to a bedroom that is not accessible from the main house. A modern rear porch is present but is not of interest.