The Millhouse, Longformacus

The Millhouse in Longformacus is a later 19th-century cottage with a single storey and an attic, designed in a near cruciform plan. It features a three-bay front with a flat-roofed porch in the northeast re-entrant angle. The building is constructed from harl-pointed rubble whinstone with droved sandstone dressings. It has overhanging timber bracketed eaves, droved quoins, and droved long and short surrounds around the openings, with projecting painted cills and timber mullions.

On the southeast front elevation, a gabled bay is advanced at the center, topped with a stone bracketed pentice canopy above a single window, which may have been a former door. Above this is a bipartite window, and decorative timber bargeboards enhance the design. The outer left and right bays feature tripartite windows at ground level, while bipartite gabled wallhead dormers break the eaves above.

The southwest side elevation has a projecting wing on the outer right with a bipartite window at ground level. To the left, the wing is recessed and features a part-glazed timber panelled door offset to the right, with a catslide wallhead dormer breaking the eaves offset to the left.

On the northwest rear elevation, there is a projecting wing at the center with single windows on both floors in the right bay. A blind bay is recessed to the outer right, and there is a single window in a later flat-roofed porch to the outer left.

The northeast side elevation has a gabled wing on the left with a single window at ground level in the right bay. A timber panelled door and a single window are located in the flat-roofed porch to the outer right, along with a triangular-headed gabled wallhead dormer on the original cottage.

The cottage features predominantly lying-pane timber casement glazing, with some small-pane modern glazing at the rear. The roof is covered with grey slate and includes some cast-iron rainwater goods. Corniced brick-built ridge stacks with various circular cans are also present.

The interior was not seen in 1997.

Surrounding the property are random rubble garden walls that enclose the site, with a rubble-walled garden to the east. Square plan sandstone piers flank the entrance, topped with urn-shaped finials and accompanied by timber gates.