Description

SO 61 NE
6/167
23.9.55

MITCHELDEAN
MILLEND STREET
(south side)
General Stores
(formerly listed as Mill End Street, Post office and house occupied by Mr. R. C. Roberts)

II
GV

House and shop in row; C15 to C19, with later alterations;
rendered stone on timber-framing to front, coursed, squared stone
to right-hand wing; roughly squared stone to rear: asbestos slate
roofs. U-plan, each wing one room deep, courtyard open to rear,
all 2 storey. Street facade: on left 4-bay, 2 window building:
ground floor C20 door to right of centre: 2-light casement window
to right, 15-pane horizontal window on left, 2-panes top hung
casements, both windows early C19. Jetty to first floor, main
beams only exposed, giving 2 wide, 2 narrow bays. 2 late C20 2-
light casement windows first floor. Roof continuous with section
on right and Church Cottage on left (q.v.). To right, 4-bay
building, ground floor late C20 shop front: jetty higher than to
left, slight projection on left, tapering to nothing on right.
First floor 2-light casement window on left, with 2 windows covered
over centre and right. At right-hand end stone gable of one-and-
a-half storey wing, said to have been a malthouse. Ground floor
double boarded doors to right of centre, with timber lintel;
square, boarded-up window in gable. On right return remains of
stone steps up to former door to upper floor. A row of beeboles
formed in rear gable.
Internally: left section, large gable chimneys remain below roof
level: on ground floor at left end a panelled door with butterfly
hinges to a cupboard. Exposed chamfered beams in ceiling. on
first floor some close-studded timber-framing exposed at rear
internally. Roof 3 collar trusses, 2 with double collars, short
king-post, and principals cut short at upper collar. Right-hand,
shop section: exposed, moulded cross-beams to left part of ground
floor ceiling: first floor ceiling over part, inserted before C18.
Sortie timber-framing exposed internally in front wall. One closed
roof truss, 3 open, latter arch-braced collar trusses, one with
cambered tie beam and braces to walls: top triangle foiled. fling
to right 7-bay, collar trusses with angle struts: one truss only
originally had a tie beam. Originally 2 separate buildings, each
with rear wing, to form L-plan, now combined in one use and
ownership.

Listing NGR: SO6634918535

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26392332

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