Abbey House

Detached six-bay two-storey mill owner's house, built 1807. Converted to private residential use, post-1948-9. Now in use as guesthouse. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone chimney stacks, and iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves. Painted roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and six-over-six timber sash windows. Elliptical-headed door opening with cut-limestone threshold having cast-iron bootscraper, timber panelled door having sidelights, and overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in shared grounds with random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site having rubble stone coping, cut-limestone piers having cut-limestone capping, and iron double gates.

An elegantly-composed Classically-proportioned middle-size house retaining the original composition attributes together with substantial quantities of the early fabric both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby maintaining the character of the site. Forming part of a neat self-contained group with an associated mill (12402812/KK-28-12) the resulting ensemble makes a pleasing visual statement on a bank overlooking the Little Arrigle River.