mill (water), house — Pound Street

Pair of semi-detached two-storey over raised basement houses, built c. 1820 and reputedly containing fabric of corn mill to site built c. 1620, comprising a single-bay single-storey over basement building to the west (two-storey to rear elevation), and a two-bay two-storey building to the east having canted plan (between bays; following road alignment) and with chamfered corner to the south-east, and having five-bay two-storey block to the rear (north). Building to the west now out of use, building to the east and rear block now in use as a private house. Pitched natural slate roof to front section (south) having clay ridge tiles, two rendered chimneystacks (one to the west gable end and one over canted corner to the house to the east, projecting cut stone eaves course, and some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Modern skylight to front pitch of house to the east; roof to section to the west now dilapidated. Hipped natural slate roof to block to the rear having projecting eaves course and surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, exposed to the west gable end and to the north-west part of rear block having flush roughly squared quoins. Rubble stone buttress to the west end of rear elevation (north) of rear block. Narrow stone or slate sills to window openings to the east gable end of house to the east. Square-headed window openings to house to the west having nine-over-nine pane timber sliding sash window with exposed sash boxes; square-headed window openings to house to the east having replacement casement windows. Square-headed window openings to the west end of block to the west (to both the front and rear elevations) having six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows with exposed sash boxes. Timber lintel to narrow open window opening\loop hole over millrace arch to the north elevation of block to rear. Square-headed doorways to the front elevation of both houses having battened timber doors (at ground floor and basement level to building to the west end). Surviving flights of stone steps to main entrances. Square-headed doorway to the rear of block to the north having replacement glazed timber door. Square-headed doorways to the east elevation of block to the rear and the rear (north) of house to the east having replacement French doors. Set slightly back from road in own grounds to the north-east of the centre of Ramelton. Timber picket fence to front of house to the east; remains of rubble stone wall to house to the west. Yard to the rear having cast-iron water pump to the rear of building to the east. Single-arched bridge over millrace\stream running under houses having rubble stone voussoirs to arch to the rear (north of rear block), rubble stone spandrels, and rubble stone construction to the arch barrel. Detached three-bay single-storey former miller's house (see 40823120) located across road to the south to the east bank of stream\millrace.