Description

DITTON CP THE STREAM
TQ 75 NW
(south side)
8/128
The Old Mill House
14.2.77

- II

Millhouse, now house. C15, possibly earlier, with C19 wing and accretions.
Timber-framed with plaster infilling to front and painted brick elevations side
and rear. Plain tiled hipped roof with brick ridge stack to left and 3 flat-
headed dormers. 2 storeys; 5 window front, lattice casements: Central gabled
C20 porch with lattice glazing and central half lattice-glazed door. 2-storey
gabled addition to left with barge boards and 1 window on each floor. Catslide
extension to rear. Interior: evidence of substantial timber frame. Rafter roof,
with later side purlins, possibly of very early construction. No original
purlins or any trusses. Low buildings to the south, (not listed), are the
remains of the former Mill that gained its power from the East Malling stream.
See M J Fuller, The Watermills of the East Malling and Watering bury streams,
Maidstone, 1980, pp. 51-54.

Listing NGR: TQ7100258174

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26632378

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)