Sea Mill Farmhouse And Mill

Sea Mill Farmhouse and Mill is an early 16th-century building, modified later, comprising a farmhouse, cottage, and mill arranged in a continuous row. The building is located in Donyatt civil parish. The main block is constructed of ham stone near-ashlar with a double Roman clay tiled roof, featuring coped gables and brick chimney stacks. The house is arranged in an ‘L’ shape, two storeys high with six bays. It features a plinth and a cill string to the first floor. The lower bay 1 and the lower bay 3 have horizontal-bar casements of three lights with timber lintels. Other windows have hollow-chamfered mullioned windows set in wave-mould recesses, with square labels, four lights each, except for the upper bay 5 which has three lights, the upper windows having small gables over. The lower bay 2 has a plain boarded door within a recess, with no window above. The main entrance is to the right of bay 4, with a hollow-chamfered four-centre-arched doorway in a rectangular wave mould recess, with a square label, and a 20th-century boarded door with a glazed panel. A pair of doors is located in a false elliptical arch in the lower bay 6. Four unexplained corbel brackets are along the front elevation. A lean-to with a boarded door is situated at the east gable, and the rear elevation has been altered but retains the cill string to the first floor level. An inserted floor dating around 1600 was previously noted within the building, along with a seven-bay arched collar-braced roof, chamfered ceiling beams, and a partly blocked large kitchen fireplace. The cottage, forming the next unit eastwards, is two storeys high with two bays, under the same roofline, but set at an angle to the house. The lower bay 1 of the cottage has a 20th-century part-glazed door under a timber lintel, and bay 2 has horizontal-bar casements of three lights to both levels. The mill, the most easterly unit, is also set at the same angle as the cottage, and straddles the mill leet. It is two storeys high with five bays. It has horizontal-bar casement windows under timber lintels, two lights each, except the lower bay 1 which has three lights. There is a partly blocked doorway to the upper bay 1, a wide stable-type door lower bay 2 under a timber and corrugated iron porch, a pair of wide doors to bay 4, providing access to the water wheel, and a plain boarded door to bay 5. The mill is reportedly still in working order. The site appears to have been used for milling since at least the 16th century.