Rash Mill Cottage And Attached Barn To East

Rash Mill Cottage and attached barn is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, with later alterations. It is constructed of mixed rubble, with the house whitewashed, and has green slate roofs on three levels, with stone slates to one wing. The building follows a U-plan, with a single-depth, two-unit house aligned east-west, a single-storey wing projecting from the right-hand end (originally a barn and former cottage), and a barn forming a crosswing to the left.

The two-storey, two-window house has a single-storey gabled porch with a square-headed opening protecting an 18th-century door featuring shouldered and fielded panels. To the left is a rectangular six-pane window with a single opening pane, a small square window, and above them a very shallow, oblong four-pane window. To the right is a six-pane sash window on the first floor. A large square chimney is located to the left. The single-storey wing to the right has a stable door and a six-pane window on its re-entrant side, a nine-pane window in the gable wall, and two two-light casements in the west side wall. A garden wall connects the wing to the barn.

Inside the house, a plank partition wall sits to the right of the doorway, with two board doors. The left-hand part of the house has two large chamfered lateral beams with exposed joists. A heck (screen) to the left conceals a stone quarter-turn staircase, with a stone wood-hole attached to the inner side of the heck. A complete court cupboard is built into the rear end of the partition wall, with plain cupboard doors in the main body, a set-back top stage with carved doors, and an oversailing mantel with ball pendants. The service end is partitioned; a former parlour is on the south side with a chamfered beam, and a narrow pantry is on the north side with stone shelves.

The barn is constructed of coursed blue ragstone. A blocked, segmental-headed wagon doorway abuts the junction with the house, and there is a shippon doorway near the left corner. The gable wall has four courses of through-stones. The east side has a wide lean-to outshut supported by a cylindrical pier, forming a cart-shed to the right and a porch to the left, and another outshut to the left of this.