Caretaker's Cottage, Mill House Estate is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1988. Caretaker's cottage.

Caretaker's Cottage, Mill House Estate

WRENN ID
burning-sentry-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Halifax MP: Kate Dearden (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 July 1988
Type
Caretaker's cottage
Address
Caretaker's Cottage, Mill House Estate, Rochdale Road
OS grid reference
SE 050 226
Coordinates
53.70029, -1.92532
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Caretaker's Cottage is a mid-19th century building located within the Mill House Estate. It is constructed from coursed squared stone and features a stone slate roof. The cottage has two storeys and two bays. The openings are framed with plain stone surrounds, and the windows have flat-faced mullions. The right bay is blind, while the left bay contains a door to the right of a two-light window on each floor, with the first-floor window featuring 16-pane sash windows. The building has paired gutter brackets and an end stack on the right side. On the right return, there is one window on each floor, and on the left return, there is a door with a 12-pane sash window above. The cottage is part of a mill complex.

Local climate

Caretaker's Cottage, Mill House Estate sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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