The Mill House, Temple

The Mill House is a traditional mill house dating to 1710. It is a two-storey and attic structure with a rectangular plan, built of random rubble with droved dressings. Vertical quoins define the corners, and reveals are chamfered.

The south-east (principal) elevation is near-symmetrical, featuring an architraved, lugged doorway topped with a pediment containing a tooled cartouche dated "1710" at the centre of the ground floor. The doorway has a two-leaf boarded timber door. Flanking the doorway are windows, and the first floor has three windows in the centre and windows in the flanking bays.

The north-east elevation is slightly asymmetrical, with a stone-roofed ingleneuk centrally placed on the ground floor, topped by a shouldered chimney breast. A small single-pane window is at ground level, with windows to the left and right returns. A lean-to addition with a corrugated roof and boarded timber door is present on the right return. A two-pane window is off-centre on the left of the gablehead.

The north-west elevation is asymmetrical and five bays wide. A small vertical window is centrally positioned on the ground floor, above which is a four-pane window. A horizontal-paned window sits in the flanking bay to the left of the ground floor, while traditional replacement windows are found in the flanking bay to the right and the outer right of the ground floor. A window with a timber lintel is visible on the outer left of the ground floor, and a window is offset to the right of the outer right bay on the first floor. Irregular rooflights are present.

The south-west elevation is asymmetrical, with two bays. It features a two-pane replacement window with a top hopper in the bay to the left of the ground floor, and a window to the right. Regular fenestration is visible on the right bay of the first and attic floors. A moulded eaves course runs along the base of the stack.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows are throughout. The roof is covered in purple-grey slate, with a lead ridge and stone skews incorporating moulded skew putts. The gablehead stacks are tooled and coped, with circular cans. Cast iron rainwater goods are present.

Internally, the building was not inspected in 1998.

Outbuildings include a single-storey, single-bay random rubble garage to the south-west, with a two-leaf boarded timber door on its north-east elevation. A 20th-century timber conservatory addition is attached to the north-west. A single-storey, four-bay outbuilding is located to the south-west at the end of the driveway, now in ruins on the north-west side; it’s constructed of random rubble with stugged dressings, featuring a window to the penultimate bay to the right and boarded timber doors to the remaining bays of the north-east elevation. A wide opening is present on the south-east elevation, with a cement lintel. The roof is corrugated iron, missing to the north-west.

Garden and boundary walls are constructed of random rubble with rubble coping along the road south of the house. A similar random rubble wall with rubble coping runs south of the drive between the garage and the row of outbuildings.