Description

TQ 04 NW SHALFORD CP THE STREET
(East side)

4/167 The Mill House
19.2.57 (formerly listed as The Old Malt
house)
II

House. C16 core, possibly older, reclad and extended in mid C17 in "Artisan-
Mannerist" style, C19 extensions and C20 restoration and additions to
ends. Timber framed core clad in sandtone rubble with brick quoins and
dressings to rear, rendered on ground floor and tile hung above - some in
fishscale pattern - on street front with brick extensions. Plain tiled
roofs of varying heights. Two storeys with attics in gables.

Old entrance front (to rear): three gabled ranges with inner gable shaped
and lower, outer Dutch gables with brick dentilled pediments. End stack
to right and further stack to rear. Brick plinth and brick plat bands
over ground and first floors of left hand gable, brick string course
coping above. Corbelled string course over ground floor right and Ionic
plasters of rubbed bricks with capitals canted on the angle supporting
full entablature extending across the first floor; brick keystone to
centre. One attic leaded casement window in each gable and two cambered
head, first floor windows to left. One 4-light "cross" window to centre
and right. Two ground floor windows to left and one to right. Glazed
door to right of centre and to left between brick piers with stepped tops
and flat stone porch hood. Single storey hipped roof brick extension to
right end, slate roofed extension projecting to front left with sash
windows and pump attached to wall.

Entrance front (facing street): projecting gabled cross wing to right
with cusped and pierced bargeboards under spiked finial. Large ridge
stack to left further stack to left end. Plat band over ground floor left
and moulded eaves board above. Diamond-pane, leaded glazing. Glazed
doors. C20 extension.

Interior: some framing with rendered infill survives, some panelling
remains. Fine early C17 staircase with rusticated newel posts and pierced
splat balisters - similar to that surviving in Slyfield Manor.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) page 453.

Listing NGR: TQ0008947554

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26280705

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments