The Mill House, Ford

The Mill House is an earlier 18th-century building, originally the miller’s house, retaining much of its original character. It is a rectangular, two-storey and attic structure with three bays, and has a 1982 extension and conservatory to the west. The exterior is harled with polished and painted stone dressings.

The south elevation is symmetrical, featuring a glazed timber door in the centre and single windows in the flanking bays. The first floor has regular fenestration. A harled extension, added in 1982 by Mary Tindall, is located to the left, including a timber patio door. An octagonal timber-framed conservatory with a harled base course is situated in the bay to the extreme left.

The east elevation has an enlarged opening with a timber door and glazed panel to the right, and an enlarged window opening to the left containing two modern large-pane pivot windows. A central window is positioned on the first floor, with a small four-pane window above, near the centre of the gablehead.

The north elevation features three bays: a nine-pane window to the far left, and four-pane sash and case windows to the other bays on the ground floor and in each bay of the first floor.

The west elevation, dating to 1982, has two bays with two modern large-pane windows on the ground floor, and incorporates a panel reading ‘1982’ in the gablehead.

The building primarily uses twelve-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is grey slate, with a ventilation pipe to the left of centre and a large rooflight to the right; it also has a lead ridge and cast iron rainwater goods. Stone skews and coped harled gablehead stacks feature circular cans. The 1982 addition has a red pantiled roof with a terracotta ridge, cast iron rainwater goods to the harled addition, and plastic rainwater goods to the conservatory.

The interior was not inspected in 1997.

A boundary wall constructed of random rubble merges with the rear elevations of the outbuildings.

To the west of the house is a rectangular outbuilding of random rubble with a pantiled roof. The south elevation has been converted into a double garage, with boarded timber doors, and a timber and glazed opening is present on the east elevation, designed for a dovecot. Attached to the southwest of the house is an elongated rectangular lean-to, also of random rubble with a pantiled roof, containing a boarded timber door on the right and a wide opening with a timber gate on the left. Another small rectangular lean-to is situated south of the preceding lean-to, constructed of squared rubble with a replaced pantile roof; it has a timber panelled door on the left of the east elevation and a timber boarded wall on the south elevation.