Mill Farmhouse (EHER 38559)

A timber framed house built in 1778 and altered in the early 19th century. It is recorded that Roger Cook, a shopkeeper then miller, was given permission to the land in 1778 and by 1782 had built a cottage, windmill, outhouses and buildings. Soon after this house was constructed he also built EHER 38558, a much more fashionable residence for himself, and let the original cottage.

May 1986. Grade II listed. A timber framed house built in 1778 and altered in the early 19th century. It is weatherboarded with a façade of red brick in Flemish bond, and the roof is covered with handmade red clay tiles. It is on a rectangular plan facing SW, with an early 19th century extension to the rear of the right end, forming a catslide with the main roof, and a later lean-to extension along the remainder of the rear elevation. The court rolls of Le How manor record that on 23 March 1778 Roger Cook, shopkeeper, was admitted to this land as waste with liberty to erect a tenement and windmill thereon, and that by 30 October 1782 he had mortgaged it with the cottage, windmill, outhouses and buildings thereon built. At that stage the brick facade would not have been present, and probably not the right stack either. <1> See photo <2>. See also <3>.