Millbrook

The main part of Millbrook is a two-storey and attic house, likely dating from the 17th century, constructed with red sandstone rubble and originally covered with a modern tile roof. A later wing (with a stone tile roof installed in 1996-7 and rebuilt end chimney stacks) now adjoins the main house. While most of the windows are modern, they are designed in a 17th-century style, featuring oak mullions and leaded casements, typically with three or four lights. The northwest front, the main entrance, is L-shaped with a lower range projecting to the right. It has a single window on the two-storey section, although the ground floor window replaces a narrower window and a former Tudor arched doorway. The entrance is now located in the lower range at a corner angle, with two windows to the right and garage doors in the northwest gable. The northeast gable retains stone cornices and labels, and features two ground-floor windows, one first-floor window, and two attic windows. The southeast (garden) front has two three-light windows on the ground floor and a three-light and a four-light window on the first floor. The southwest gable has a five-light, diamond mullioned window on the ground floor, a four-light window on the first floor, and a three-light window in the attic. The lower range has small-pane timber and metal-frame windows on its southwest side.

The house features a fine hall, which contains a post-and-panel screen at one end and a large fireplace with a massive megalithic sandstone lintel and monolithic jambs. A built-in spice cupboard is also present. A full-height recess to the right of the chimney may have originally been a doorway, though no supporting evidence remains in the stonework. A Tudor-headed boarded door to the left leads to a winding stone staircase. The hall ceiling is characterized by Wern Hir stops to the transverse beams and exceptionally unusual broach and faceted torus stops to the joists. The screen has chamfered posts showing evidence of a former bench, and ogee-type doorheads with triangular-headed doors at either end. A stone flagged floor completes the hall's features. Interior rooms are divided by square-panelled partitions, with stop-chamfered beams and a later chimneypiece in the southwest corner. A Tudor-headed door at the top and bottom of the staircase leads to the attic, along a staircase with solid oak treads. The first floor contains two rooms separated by a post-and-panel screen featuring concave-moulded post edges and a depressed ogee-type doorway on the right; a cruder doorway in the end room led into the former loft of the lower range. While the first floor has chamfered beams, the ceilings are not uniform and the floorboards are broad. The end room on the first floor features a massive chimney lintel. The attic has four roof trusses with heavy collars and paired purlins.

Against the northwest wall of the main house, the lower range has a broad, full-width space created by a stone partition, which is open to the roof with a low tie beam. This range may originally have been used for animal accommodation. As of April 1997, it was being converted into a kitchen on the ground floor and two rooms divided by an oak-framed partition above. All of this work, including the staircase, is new construction.