Listed Building: MILL COTTAGE (15/244)

Mill house, now 2 dwellings. 1730-31 for Earl of Westmorland, extended C19. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and Collyweston slate roof. L-shape plan. 2 storeys with attic. Main front is a 3-window range of large, 3-light, cross casements at first floor and 2 canted bay windows, with slated roofs, at ground floor. First floor windows are under gauged stone heads. Central 4-panel, part-glazed door, is under similar head and has a rectangular fanlight with glazing bars. 2 hipped roof dormers. Ashlar gable parapets and rebuilt stone stacks at ends. C19 extension at intersection of wing, to rear. Interior not inspected but noted as having ovolo-moulded cross beams, a reset C18 stair, with turned balusters, and some early C19 plasterwork. The house was built by John Dimbleby a mason and Edward Orper, a carpenter. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p176)

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