Description

STANFORD-IN-THE-VALE UPPER GREEN
SU39SW, SU3493 (North side)
5/253, 9/253 No.6 (The Old Mill House)

GV II

Mill and millers house. Mid C18, remodelled c.1930. Random bond brick, except
coursed limestone rubble with brick dressings to right of front door; old tiled
roof; brick stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys; 5-window range. Gabled porch of c.1930 in
front of original doorway. Irregular fenestration. Segmental brick arches over
2- and 3-light leaded casements to left of door and, to right, 2-light cross
window with leaded casements; window to right inserted in place of door which
was reached by limestone steps which still run along front walls; 3 blocked
window openings with limestone ashlar quoins beneath eaves to right; tile-clad
gabled roof dormers with 2-light leaded casements. Dentilled eaves to left wing.
Gabled roof; gable end stacks. The right wall of the wing extending from the
front left wall has 4-window range of segmental arches over 2- and 3-light
leaded casements on the right side wall, and timber lintels over two 2-light
leaded casements on the left side wall. Rear has semi-circular arch over blocked
housing for mill wheel shaft and segmental arches over 2 two-light cross windows
and twin C20 gabled dormers; gabled brick and tiled wing to rear left remodelled
and extended in late C20. Interior: First floor remodelled c.1930 and later when
entire mill building to right of door was remodelled with a C17 moulded
bressumer from another house fitted in the remodelled gable wall fireplace.
Quarry tile flooring; 4- and 6-panelled doors in moulded architraves. Closed
string quarter-turn with landing stairs opposite front door have mid C18 barley
sugar balusters.

Listing NGR: SU3416794004

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26478343

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)