Description

TL 96 NW THURSTON BARTON ROAD: MILL LANE

1/138 Mill Farmhouse
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-- II

Former farmhouse, late C16. 2 storeys. 2-cell end-chimney plan. Timber-
framed and roughcast; much of ground storey walling rebuilt in plastered
masonry. Double-Roman pantiled roof, adapted to gambrel form in probably C19;
formerly thatched. To left is a C16 external gable chimney of red brick, with
vestigial crowstepping; the upper shaft rebuilt in C19. An axial late C18
chimney of red brick. Mid C20 steel small-pane casements. Two C19 panelled
entrance doors side-by-side: C20 plaintiled lean-to roofed glazed porch.
Unchamfered floor joists laid flat in the hall. Studwork with diamond-
mullioned window evidence. Windbraced clasped purlin roof; the rafters have
been cut above the purlins and realigned at lower pitch, perhaps c.1800. A
windmill formerly stood close by the rear of the house.

Listing NGR: TL9148866126

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26478211

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)