Description

SO 8532 FORTHAMPTON SCHOOL LANE
(east side)

7/70 Mill Hill Farmhouse
10.1.55

GV II

Former farmhouse, now house. Late C16-mid C17, C18 and C19.
Close-studded timber-framing with bracing and square-panelled
timber-framing with rendered infill, gable ends rendered, blue lias
plinth with sandstone capping. Red tile roof, brick stacks.
'U'-shaped C16-C17 main body, with C18 square timber-framed infill
between projecting wings. C19 lean-to wash house/bakehouse
extensions onto right gable-end. Three-storey main body with
cellar under north end. West front; gabled 3-storey wings
project forward right and left. Plank door at centre of left-hand
gable with single pitched plank over. Wide C18 six-panelled door
with upper 4 panels glazed at centre of C18 infill between
projecting gables. Gabled latticework porch. Four-light double-
chamfered, stone-mullioned cellar window in east front.
Projecting triple right gable-end stack, axial stack and lateral
stack from right-hand wall of left-hand wing.
Interior; flat-chamfered beams with ogee stops. C18 corner
cupboard with fielded panels. Washing copper and bread oven in
situ in C19 lean-tos. Roof; queen posts and queen struts.

Listing NGR: SO8544832346

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26446715

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)