Coach House, 1 And 2 Newe Avenue

The Coach House at 1 and 2 Newe Avenue is a former mill house, coach house, and stables that dates back to around 1840, with the western range likely built in the later 19th century. The western range was converted into a dwelling in the 1980s. This fine single-storey and attic structure is arranged in a U-plan and was originally part of the Newe Estate. It initially formed an L-plan that included the mill and mill house, with stables and the coach house added to create a large U-plan around an open courtyard. Notable features include a stone bellcote, an iron-columned verandah, and some early interior details.

The building is constructed from snecked rubble with squared rubble long and short work quoins, harled with ashlar margins and quoin strips. The cart arches, which have been altered to windows, feature voussoired segmental heads and retain original timber doors used as shutters on the left side of the courtyard elevation.

The symmetrical entrance elevation faces south, with the mill house and former mill in the projecting eastern range. The stables are set back, with the earlier eastern bays featuring a door in a slightly projecting central gable that includes a blind panel and an oculus below the bellcote. The former coach house, now a dwelling, is in the projecting western range, where two cart arches have been converted to windows.

The northern range has a 10-pane glazing pattern, while the eastern range features a 4-pane glazing pattern, all in timber sash and case windows. The western range has replacement hardwood glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates and includes cast iron rooflights, except for the western range, a horizontal rooflight behind the bellcote, and tall conically-capped ridge ventilators. The building has coped ashlar stacks with some cans and ashlar-coped skews, along with moulded skewputts on the eastern range.

Inside, there is a good retention of fine early stables that include timber and ironwork looseboxes with hay baskets, cobbled sett floors, and boarded timber walls.