Building record 1272/1 - Cicely Mill

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58460 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

House. Seventeenth century. Timber frame with brick infill and stone slate roof. Two storeys. Entrance front: eight by three cells of small framing on brick plinth. Three-light casement window to left and four-light casement to right of ground floor. One four-light gabled dormer casement to first floor with coving over and timber-framed gable. Inscription to gable tie: I.B. 1650. Later wing to right hand side with twentieth century door to left and four-light mullion to right of ground floor with three-light casement to first floor. Twentieth century outshut to rear with planted timbers. Twentieth century attic dormer similar to that at front. Interior: Inglenook fireplace to parlour with ovolo-moulded bressumer. Chamfered end-stopped ceiling beams, small-framed internal walls with wattle and daub infill.

<2> Bryant, A., 1831, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2114.

The building or adjacent building to the north, is labelled Rostherne Mill.

<3> Bott O J P, 1983, Cornmill sites in Cheshire 1066-1850 Part 2, p.64 (Article in Journal). SCH6105.

A watermill site on the north-east side of the Bucklow Hill – Rostherne road. First documentary reference 1432.

<4> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edawrds R, 21/02/2022 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

Possibly the mill house.