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Former coaching inn and temperance hotel, now in residential use, built in the late 18th century and circa 1830. After fire damage in 1997, it was converted to flats in 1998. Its name derives from the meal mill which stood to the west of the building in what is now the car park (NO88NE0133). It is a two-storey and attic, seven-bay, L-plan building that is constructed from red sandstone ashlar with coursed squared rubble to sides, squared and snecked rubble and some harl to rear and a cornice and blocking course. There is 12- and 24-pane glazing patterns in replacement timber sash and case windows and an 8-pane glazing pattern to timber casement windows. The grey slate roof has stone ridges, coped ashlar gablehead stacks with polygonal cans and ashlar-coped skews with block skewputts. The principal south elevation has a colonnade, outer pilasters and a Doric entablature with triglyphs, metopes and guttae and a mutuled cornice and blocking course across the three centre bays with a window flanked by panelled timber doors with four-pane fanlights. The remaining ground floor bays have windows, with smaller regular fenestration close to the eaves at the first floor. A blocking course with a raised centre comprises a corniced ashlar tablet and painted panel reading 'THE MILL INN'. Behind the blocking course at each side are two slate-hung piended dormer windows. The west M-gabled elevation has an earlier, slightly smaller gable to the north. There are four ground floor windows, three irregularly-disposed windows at the first floor and two windows at the attic. The rear north elevation has an advanced earlier block to the west with a window to each floor and three dormers above, and a variety of openings to the east return. To the east is a harled block with a door and two windows to each floor and a bipartite dormer above. The blank, gabled east elevation has Number 4 Mill Inn Road (NO88NE0244) adjoining at the north, which was built as a coach house for the inn.
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