Park Mill and Park Cottage is a Grade II* listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1986. Mill, cottage. 11 related planning applications.

Park Mill and Park Cottage

WRENN ID
heavy-oriel-fen
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 December 1986
Type
Mill, cottage
Address
Park Mill and Park Cottage, Mill Lane, Brereton, CW4 8AU
OS grid reference
SJ 773 658
Coordinates
53.18923, -2.34041
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A water-powered corn mill and attached cottage, dating from circa 1840. The building is constructed of brown brick with a clay tile roof. The mill is two storeys high facing Mill Lane, which crosses the dam, rising to three storeys at the rear. It features a boarded door in a rebated camber-arched opening, and four small-pane casements within camber-arched openings in the lower storey facing the lane. The upper storey has five Gothick cast iron casements and a boarded loading door with a hoist above. A tapered square chimney is located at the north-east corner. The rear elevation includes boarded double doors, various casements to the lower two storeys, and six Gothick cast iron windows with inset opening lights to the upper storey. A large, disused iron breastwheel remains, along with its full train of machinery. The attached cottage, included for group value, has altered fenestration, but retains its unaltered openings facing the lane. A cornmill in Brereton manor is referenced in the Domesday Book.

Local climate

Park Mill and Park Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 11 applications
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  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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