Mill House, mill building and bakehouse

Heritage listing

Details A house, water-powered corn mill and bakehouse, all of apparently C18 date. MATERIALS: the buildings are of roughly coursed red sandstone, with weatherboarding to the agricultural buildings adjoining the house. The house and mill have clay-tile roofs, the bakehouse has a slate roof. PLAN: the complex is located on the north side of the Clee Brook. The mill, house and bakehouse are all rectangular in plan. The house and bakehouse are opposite each other and aligned north-west / south-east with their south-east gables facing the road. These gable ends form a gateway to the complex. The mill building is aligned more closely to east-west than the other buildings and is around 10m north-west of the house. The millpond is now dry but is visible as an earthwork north and east of the mill. HOUSE EXTERIOR: the house is a single-storey building with cellar and attic. The front elevation faces south-west. The house is built into a bank to its rear (north-east elevation), leaving the cellar above ground to the front. A barn and pigsty abut the north-west gable end of the house; a straight joint between these and the house suggest that they are a later addition. The house and barn are all under the same pitched roof which has an unbroken ridge line. The pigsty is lower in height than the rest of the buildings and is set back from the front line of the house. The barn is stone, but the front is weatherboarded and has timber plank doors. At ground floor level the front of the house has a central door with a canopy porch over, with a stair-light immediately to the south-east. The door and stair-light are flanked by two three-light casement windows. The windows have shallow arched lintels of bricks laid in a single course with rowlock edges facing. The front elevation below grou

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.