Description

FARNDALE WEST LOW MILL
SE 69 NE
4/63 Mill Farmhouse and
attached cottage and
outbuildings
GV II
Farmhouse, and attached cottage and outbuildings, including former smithy
and butcher's shop; now farmhouse, post office, garage and outbuildings.
Mid C18 with C19 alteration and extension. Tooled sandstone with pantile
roof. Front to yard: 2-storey, 2-window main front, flanked by lower 2-
storey, single-window range, with outshut to left; and single-storey range
of outbuildings to right. 4-panel door to lower 2-storey range with 16-pane
sash to left and 4-pane sash above. Outshut has 2-light, 12-pane horizontal
sliding sash. To main front, fixed-light fire window with 3-light casement
to right and 4-pane sash further to right. Two 4-pane sashes to first
floor. Painted stone sills to all windows and heavy plain lintels to all
openings. Coped gables and shaped kneelers; end stacks. End left stack,
and right of centre stack to outshut catslide roof. Outbuildings: 3 stable
doors and one board door; fixed small-pane window to end right; remaining
windows are 6-pane top-opening lights. Coped gable and shaped kneeler to
end right. Front to road: 2-storey, 2-window front with lower 2-storey, 2-
window wing to right; single-storey outshuts added; single-storey lean-to
outbuilding added at end right; to left, single-storey range of outbuildings
projecting at end left. 4-panel doors to outshut and to left; board doors
to cottage to right and to lean-to. 4-pane sash to ground floor of house
and 2 to first floor; 2-light small-pane casement to right of cottage door
with large-pane casement above; 2-light, large-pane horizontal sliding sash
to first floor left. Outbuildings: C20 plank double doors to former
butcher's shop. Plank smithy door with 2 fixed-light windows further to
left. Centre left stack. Mounting block beside smithy door. Interior:
both ground-floor rooms to house retain roughly-chamfered spine beams and
square section joists. In the first room, the bressumer (boxed) and heck
survive. To left of fireplace is a spice cupboard recess with a carved
square surround.

Listing NGR: SE6725095225

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26467744

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014