Description

ST 9152
11/39

BRATTON
MELBOURNE STREET
(north side)
Mill Vale House

II

Detached house. 1770s, altered C19 and C20. Flemish bond brick,
Welsh slate roof, gable end brick stacks. Two parallel ranges.
Two-storey, 3-window. Central 4-panelled door in stone architrave
with flat stone hood on brackets, 12-pane sash with 'horns' either
side. First floor has three 12-pane sashes. Moulded stone eaves
cornice and brick blocking course, said to be C20. Ceramic ridge
cresting to roofs. Right return has earlier brickwork to footings,
some blocked segmental-headed openings, sashes to ground and first
floors. Rear, partly in rubble stone, has segmental-headed planked
door with C20 portico, 16-pane sash to left and C20 casement to
right, first floor has two 12-pane and one 16-pane sash.
Interior has stairs in central hall with stick balusters and
moulded handrail, doors with 6 fielded panels in reeded or fluted
architraves. Built as the miller's house, adjacent to the remains
of the woollen mill built by Thomas Jarvis c1807.
(K. Rogers, Wiltshire and Somerset Woollen Mills, 1976)

Listing NGR: ST9171952519

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26488472

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Recommended Books

• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)