Greatham Millhouse, Mill And Barn

GREATHAM MILL ROAD SU 73 SE 5/5 Greatham Millhouse, Mill and Barn (formerly 16.3.54 listed as Greatham Mill) GV II

House, with mill attached at the north end, and barn (garage and store) at the other end. Late C18 or early c19. Brick walls in Flemish bond, with blue headers to the mill part: the barn has walls of brickwork, ironstone and boarding. Hipped tile roof; with brick dentil eaves to the house, which has 4 gables to the rear: the mill roof is of slate (double pile): the barn has a separate hipped tile roof, extended to a lower eaves at south and west. The house and mill has a continuous front (south-east) elevation of 2 storeys, 2 storeys and attic, 4.2 windows, the mill showing coupled gables of wider span and greater height. casements. Plain house doorway (early C19) with moulded canopy on small coupled carved brackets and 6-panelled (2 top glazed) door. The mill front has upper and lower doors, and a wide cambered arch in the northern half, leading to the wheel housing: the lower walls are of ironstone, where they meet the embankment. The barn (a timber-frame of 3 bays with 2 aisles) is set back and touches the house at its south-west corner. The rear elevation of the house indicates by the brickwork that the roof was formerly a catslide, but was raised to form the gables. A feature of the mill is the retention of its interior, with machinery, now unusable by the diversion of the water supply.

Listing NGR: SU7714430584