Mill Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Ribble local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.

Mill Hill Cottage

WRENN ID
fading-chamber-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Ribble
Constituency
South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 February 1984
Type
House
Address
Mill Hill Cottage, Haunders Lane, Much Hoole, PR4 5JR
OS grid reference
SD 458 218
Coordinates
53.69036, -2.82078
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mill Hill Cottage is a house dated 1691 that has been extended and altered over time. It is built of brick with stone quoins and has a slate roof with projecting gable eaves. The cottage features one ridge chimney stack and two gable chimneys. The gable end faces the road, and the original plan consisted of two bays, with a third bay added around the mid-19th century.

The house is two storeys high, with stone quoins on the ground floor of the original structure. There is a door to the third bay, a blocked former door on the right side of the second bay with a stone lintel inscribed "HSA ; 1691", and two casement windows to the left of this door on each floor. The rear wall has similar windows in each bay. All ground floor openings have segmental brick heads, while those above are close to the eaves.

In the left gable, there are blocked former windows with brick mullions and hoodmoulds, including one at ground floor and two above. A similar hoodmould is present in the rear wall of the second bay, aligned with the chimney stack. There are also some blocked very small single-light windows at the first floor in both the front and rear walls, which are said to have intact diamond-leaded glazing now concealed.

Inside, the cottage features an inglenook fireplace with a large ovolo-moulded bressummer and a pair of similarly moulded and stopped bridging beams. The first bay contains two service rooms, one of which has stairs with turned balusters and a moulded handrail.

Local climate

Mill Hill Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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