Mill Cottage

SEDBERGH

SD69SW 162-1/5/365

HOWGILL LANE, Howgill (West side (off)) Mill Cottage

GV II

Cottage. Probably early C18; extended and altered. Coursed mixed rubble with sandstone quoins, stone-coloured composition tile roof. Single-depth 2-unit plan plus a set-back extension at the left end (formerly lean-to but recently raised). EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys, 1:2 windows. The 2-window main range, with a continuous stone-slate drip-course over the ground floor, has a doorway offset right, with a flat-arched head of rubble voussoirs (now covered by porch), a pegged wooden doorcase and studded plank door with strap hinges, and protected by an added shallow gabled porch with stone slab roof; a square casement window to the left with thin glazing bars and a rectangular window to the right with altered glazing, both these windows with flat-arched heads like the doorway; and at 1st floor a rectangular 9-pane window to the left with one opening pane in the top row, and an oblong casement window to the right with a similar opening pane in the top row. Gable chimney to left. Former lean-to at left end now has upper floor with window. Right-hand end adjoins gable wall of Mill House (qv). INTERIOR: large ceiling beam, and panelled partition forming very narrow room at right-hand end. Forms group with Mill House (qv) adjoining to the right, and with Millers Cottage (qv) to the right of that.

Listing NGR: SD6321494923