Anderton Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1987. A C18 Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Anderton Mill Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chorley
Constituency
South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 January 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Anderton Mill Cottage, Bentley Lane, Mawdesley, L40 3SW
OS grid reference
SD 510 142
Coordinates
53.62269, -2.74148
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Anderton Mill Cottage is a miller's cottage that has been converted into a house. It is dated 1799 on the porch but includes some earlier elements and has been altered over time. The building is constructed of sandstone, with the front and gables made of regularly coursed blocks, while the rear is built from random rubble with quoins. It features a slate roof and brick chimneys. The cottage has an L-shaped plan with three bays and a rear wing on the left side.

It is two storeys high, with a single-storey gabled porch in the first bay that has an oval panel on the lintel inscribed with "1799" and decorative flourishes on either side, topped with a red tiled roof. Flanking the porch are fixed windows with four and six panes. To the right, there is a vertical joint that reaches half height, made of long and short stones, indicating the left side of a former wagon entrance. This section includes a three-light casement window and a two-light sliding sash window in the third bay. On the first floor, there are sliding sash windows with three, three, and two lights.

At the rear, the wing is mostly made of random rubble but is raised by five courses of masonry similar to the front. There are doorways leading into the wing and the third bay, along with one small window on each floor. Inside, the space has been altered, but the third bay contains one exceptionally large chamfered beam. The cottage is historically associated with a windmill that once stood just a few meters to the north.

Local climate

Anderton Mill Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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