The Mill House, Temple

Dated 1710. 2 storey and attic, 3 bay, rectangular plan traditional mill house. Random rubble with droved dressings. Vertical quoins; chamfered reveals.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: near symmetrical; architraved lugged doorway surmounted with pediment enclosing tooled cartouche dated "1710" to centre of ground floor; 2 leaf boarded timber door. Windows to flanking bays. 3 windows to centre of 1st floor; windows to flanking bays.

NE ELEVATION: slightly asymmetrical; stone roofed ingleneuk to centre of ground with shouldered chimney breast above. Small single pane window to centre at ground, window to left and right returns. Lean to addition to right with corrugated roof and boarded timber door to right return. 2 pane window off centre to left of gablehead.

NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 5 bay; small vertical window to centre of ground with 4 pane window to 1st floor above; horizontal paned window to flanking bay to left of ground; traditional replacement windows to flanking bay to right and outer right of ground; window with timber lintel to outer left of ground; window off centre to right of outer right bay of 1st floor. Irregular rooflights.

SW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2 bay; 2 pane replacement window with top hopper to bay to left of ground; window to right of ground; regular fenestration to right bay of 1st and attic floors. Moulded eaves course runs along base of stack.

Predominantly 12 pane timber sash and case windows. Graded purple grey slate roof with lead ridge; stone skews with moulded skew putts; tooled, coped gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

OUTBUILDINGS: single storey, single bay, random rubble garage to SW of house; 2 leaf boarded timber door to NE elevation; 20th century timber conservatory addition to NW. Single storey 4 bay outbuilding to SW at end of driveway, in ruins at NW; random rubble with stugged dressings; window to penultimate bay to right, boarded timber doors to remaining bays of NE elevation. Wide opening to SE elevation, with cement lintel. Corrugated iron roof, missing to NW.

GARDEN AND BOUNDARY WALLS: random rubble wall with rubble coping along road to S of house. Random rubble wall with rubble coping to S of drive between garage and row of outbuildings.