The Old Millhouse

The Old Millhouse is a miller's house and bakery, now a dwelling, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of random rubble local stone with red brick surrounds and has a roughcast left return. The building features a shallow pitch roof covered with triple Roman tiles and has brick stacks at the gable ends. At the rear, there is a lower bakery wing with a roof of double Roman tiles and plain clay tiles, with a stack set in from the gable end. The structure is L-shaped, consisting of two cells and a cross passage facing east, with a two-storey outshot to the southwest and a single-storey bakery wing to the northwest.

The house is two storeys high with three bays, featuring 16-pane sash windows, although the wooden cills are rotten and covered in lead sheeting. A central gabled trelliswork porch leads to a boarded door with an inset light. The rear elevation includes dressed chert voussoirs to the wing and a large inaccessible area behind the stack, which is believed to contain a large bread oven.

Inside, the interior has seen little alteration and retains a flagstone floor, an early 19th-century stick stair with turned newels, and a wooden chimneypiece of similar date to the stair. The large bread oven in the rear wing has been blocked. While there is no conclusive evidence that the rear wing is part of an earlier building, it is likely that there has been a mill on this site for many centuries.