Description

PAINSWICK HAINES GREEN
SO 80 NE
5/120
Washbrook Farm
- II
Former mill and mill house, now farmhouse. late C17 or early C18 and mid C19,
possibly with some earlier fabric. Squared and coursed limestone, concrete
tile. A four storey mill building at lower level, and 3-storey narrow mill
house set slightly higher. Downstream front has, left, mainly plain mill house,
with are C20 casement and C20 glazed door to half-basement then 1 + 3 bay mill
with 2 or 3-light recessed chamfer stone-mullioned windows with iron casements,
with stopped hoods at lower ground, ground and first floor, and two 2-light,
without hoods, immediately below eaves; a long C20 dormer with 3 steel casements
extreme right. Centrally a C20 door in chamfered surround, slightly cambered
head to very deep plain stone lintel and hood. Gable, left, has too deep 12-
pane sashes to right, and a C20 casement set to former door opening, left.
Upstream side is 2-storey with basement to mill; the ground level has been
raised by building up both, where centrally there is a blocked and half concealed
door opening with C16 moulded surround and a richly carved lintel including
coat of arms, all under a dropped hood and a bulls-eye plaque in rectangular
setting: to the left of this, up C20 stop with landing a C20 bolection mould
door surround with carved lintel bearing date 1691 and initial HWA. Low right
is half-buried 2-light casement; at main level is a 3-light C20 mullioned casement
a 2-light chamfered mullion at eaves, above blocked door, and a 3-light
with hood over a blocked half-buried similar. At mid-height in C19 extension a
12-pane sash. A stone stack at junction between units. Interior: substantially
modified, many floor changes, no old stair seen. Roof not inspected. A
puzzling building needing more investigation.

Listing NGR: SO8570309495

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26445324

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