Level 3 Survey in spring 2023 prior to demolition. Requirement of condition 4 of planning permission 21/02782/FUL and subsequent planning permission 22/02309/FUL. Four distinct phases of construction. It likely started as a simple 2-room plan dwelling, later extended to 3-room plan. Single skin brickwork with thin coat of lime plaster applied to internal wall, plaster floors and heating of only two ground floor rooms. It is also evident from scaring, specifically where other doors have existed then have been blocked up and the roof covering has been laid after chim-neystacks have been removed, that it ceased to be a dwelling and adapted to alternative uses. It is known and verified by the resident of Millyard Cottage that up until 2020 the building had been used as a garden store for at least 15 years and prior to that for rearing pheasant chicks. Phase 1: a two-room plan, either single storey or one and half storey, with the eastern room contain-ing the fireplace and stack rising up within the building. Built in single brick skin, in stretcher bond except to the NW gable which is a double brick skin in a crude English garden bond. Ceiling timbers are hand converted hard wood, hewn and sawn and the joints, between spine beam and joists, pre-sent a basic method of assembly. This rudimentary manner of construction using hand converted timbers suggests construction before mid-19th century. Cartographic evidence supports the conclu-sion that this part of the building dates to at least the early 19th century and feasibly before. Phase 2: roof was raised above the two-room plan. First-floor plaster floor, likely gypsum plaster (common in the Midlands between 17th and 19th century). Phase 3: two-storey extension added to the east end of the building. Single skin brickwork. The structural timbers within the floor structure are also hand converted hard wood, hewn and sawn alt-hough they are distinctly neater in conversion and assembly than those in the phase one part of the building. This rudimentary manner of construction of the timber floor suggests construction before mid-19th century and possibly slightly earlier they may be assumed. Like the “original” part of the building the surviving first-floor is a gypsum plaster floor. A chimneybreast is found at the north-west wall but not tied into the back wall it sits up against reflective its construction as a later addition. Phase 4 replacement of the roof structure and roof covering. The timber roof structure is constructed in mill sawn manufactured softwood timbers which are distinctly different to the vernacular hand con-verted timbers used in the floor structures. (1)

<1> Hutton and Rostron Environmental Investigations Ltd, 2023, The White House, Kneeton Building Report (Unpublished document). SNT5510.