Mill View

An early C20 waterside bungalow.

MATERIALS: the building is constructed of pine and the roof is covered in metal sheets.

EXTERIOR: the building is a single storey high and four bays wide. It faces east over a garden towards the River Thurne. The walls are clad in horizontal weatherboarding (supplemented on the north, west and south sides with cedar shingles). The roof is pitched, with finials at the apex on the north and south ends and plain barge boards.

The principal (east) elevation has a verandah beneath the continuous roof. It is supported by tapering, chamfered posts with sweeping ogee shoulders of an Art Nouveau style. The balustrade follows a pattern of wide, flat balusters with simple piercings flanked by smaller stick balusters. Within the verandah the wall is formed of wide horizontal boards on to which a decorative frame of pine has been applied. The lower parts of the wall are weatherboarded.

The west elevation faces the footpath and is weathboarded with additional cedar shingles. The fenestration is all uPVC and there is an entrance on the right-handside (south end).

INTERIOR: throughout the interior there is a high degree of surviving original fabric. Principally this includes joinery details around window and door frames, four-panelled doors, and matchboard panelling to the walls and ceilings. The windows looking on to the verandah are original and retain their metal latches and fittings; they are casements with paired transom lights. The ceiling of the principal living space is framed with simple battens. The fittings of the bathroom and kitchen have all been serially renewed and are of lesser interest.