Mill Hill

Mill Hill is a house built around 1900 by architect Detmar Blow for Fairfax Cholmeley, with early 20th-century alterations by Alfred Powell and later changes by Martin Stancliffe. The building is constructed from random local sandstone and features pantile roofs. It has an irregular L-shaped plan and stands two storeys high with a loft.

The original design by Blow includes two coach houses, stabling, and a library on the ground floor, which Powell converted into a library, sitting-room, and dining-room. There is an open two-storey house-place with a gallery at the north-west end and a large fireplace on the north-east wall. The room below the gallery has been divided, and there are first-floor bedrooms above the stables and library. A single-storey kitchen range to the east has been demolished.

Powell added a corridor to the north-east of the main range, which is accessed through a two-storey canted entrance bay at the west end, featuring a spacious first-floor gallery above. Additionally, there is a north-west range at right angles to the main building, which includes a central archway leading to the kitchen courtyard, flanked by a monument room to the north and service rooms to the south, with bedrooms and bathrooms above. This range has been subtly altered to create an entrance hall, kitchen, and granny flat. The windows have segmental arches and side-sliding sashes and casements, although little of Blow's original detailing remains on the exterior.

Interior photographs from Country Life show an open hall with a large fireplace and gallery. The house reflects the socialist principles of its patron, the local squire. The squat tapering chimney stacks on this house and others in Brandsby village suggest that the Cholmeleys commissioned Blow or Powell for additional work.