Ivymill Farmhouse and Mill, Edington, Wiltshire, BA13 (Grade II)

EDINGTON – ST 95 SW 5/140 Ivymill Farmhouse and Mill II Farmhouse with attached former mill. C15 with late C19 farmhouse. Mill has dressed limestone to ground floor, English garden wall bond brick to first floor, pantiled roof. Flemish bond brick farmhouse has plain tiled roof, brick stacks. Two-storey, 4- window mill at right angles to C19 house. Deep chamfered pointed doorway to left of centre has C19 two-light segmental-headed casement and 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement to left, segmental-headed planked stable door and single-light deep chamfered light to right, blocked doorway to right end bay. Offset string course to left, first floor has 4-pane sash, single and 2- light casements with planked loading bay door to right. Right return has planked door to ground floor, weatherboarded first floor. Rear partly timber-framed with planked doors and blocked windows, outshut attached to right part. Interior said to have 3- bay roof, partly smoke-blackened; retains gearing and millstones of water mill at right hand end, water wheel dismantled. Two- storey, 3-window, C19 farmhouse has 6-panelled door in gabled porch with 3-light segmental casements either side and 3-light and 2- light casements to first floor. Mill possibly represents the remains of a C15 hall house, later converted to a mill and much altered. Mill ceased to operate during 1940s. (VCH, Wiltshire, Vol 8, 1965)