Survey Data
Reg No
12317002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Mill manager's house
In Use As
House
Date
1815 - 1835
Coordinates
258543, 141545
Date Recorded
18/05/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement mill owner's house, c.1825, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to centre ground floor having canted bay window, two-bay two-storey side elevations, and three-bay two-storey over part-raised basement return to north-east. Now in private residential use. Hipped slate roof to main block (gabled to porch) with pitched slate roof to return having rolled lead ridges (clay ridge tiles to return), red brick Running bond chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered walls with rendered corner piers to porch supporting moulded rendered surround to gable in form of open-bed pediment. Square-headed window openings (including to canted bay window) with cut-limestone sills, moulded rendered surrounds, and six-over-six timber sash windows having one-over-one timber sash window to canted bay window. Square-headed door opening with cut-limestone step, and glazed timber panelled door. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in grounds originally shared with Grenan Flour Mill perpendicular to road with side (south-east) elevation fronting on to road.
Appraisal
An elegantly-composed substantial mill owner's house having historical associations with the adjacent Grenan Flour Mill complex (12317005/KK-28-17-05). Stylistic attributes lingering from the Regency period enhancing the formal architectural design value of the composition include a distinctive overhanging roof together with Classically-derived elements such as the elegant moulded surrounds to the openings. Having been well maintained the house presents an early aspect with the original composition attributes surviving in place together with most of the early fabric both to the exterior and to the interior. Positioned overlooking the road the house makes a valuable contribution to the aesthetic appeal of the streetscape of Mill Street.