NHER 45649 (Building record) - Mill Lane Farmhouse

Mill Lane Farmhouse.
17th century. Plastered. Steeply pitched pantile roof with gabled ends. Gabled cross wing on west end. Two storeys and attic (attic windows in gable ends). All modern three-light casements. Lean-to porch in angle. Brick chimneys
with diagonally set stacks. Recently modernised.
Information from (S1).

July 2008. Building Survey.
Survey of Mill Hall and out building. Work undertaken prior to major alteration work including the construction of an extension and removal of a staircase.
The first phase of construction, circa early-mid seventeenth century, was a timber-framed building constructed upon a brick plinth. The brick plinth is approximately 60cms from the ground, laid in Flemmish bond. Cladding and render on an internal wall in the hallway and in the loft indicate a once exposed gable end. Blocked windows on all three floors on the internal elevation of this wall also support the suggestion that the original phase ended there. The principle room on the ground floor, measuring 9.03m by 4.96m, represents the size of the original phase. A blocked window in the principle room may indicate that the original strucure was a lobby entry house, as the entrance would have been opposite the chimney stack. Modern windows have obscured the dimensions and exact locations of many of the original windows. The second phase of construction was again a timber frame upon a brick plinth. The date '1624' is inscribed on a beam in this phase of construction, and if this is an original feature then it helps to date the alterations. The structure underwent further major alterations in the twentieth-century, including construction in the location of an earlier part of the building, which resulted in the reuse of material such as tiles, beams and lintels.
A nineteenth- century ancillary structure was also surveyed. It was a single storey building divided into three areas, open to the roof and was 'L'-shaped in plan.
See report (S2) for further details.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2008.480).
H. White (NLA), 14 May 2009. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 May 2019.