Cossington Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1984. Restaurant, mill. 6 related planning applications.
Cossington Mill
- WRENN ID
- third-banister-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1984
- Type
- Restaurant, mill
- Address
- Cossington Mill, Syston Road, LE7 4UZ
- OS grid reference
- SK 595 129
- Coordinates
- 52.71094, -1.11979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cossington Mill is a restaurant, originally a mill, dating to the 17th century, with later restoration and modifications. The building is constructed of whitewashed brick and timber framing, featuring large panels with brick infill and a hipped roof covered in Swithland slate, with two brick stacks and a 20th-century metal stack. It has a roughly L-shaped plan.
The main facade, facing the road, is one bay wide, with a jettied first-floor projection containing a two-light casement window. A doorway is situated under an archway below, with a two-light window to the side. A projecting wing to the right has a brick coped gable and a further bay, featuring a two-light and a one-light window above a three-light window. A one-story extension with a Swithland slate roof, formerly housing the mill wheel, is visible on the facing gable. An attic window is a two-light. To the left, one bay is four panels wide, flanked by two one-story extensions.
The rear elevation, facing the river, is five panels wide, with two two-light windows, one with a transom, above two three-light windows, and a further two-light window. A central buttress is present. The right-hand side of the rear elevation has two two-light windows within one-story extensions. The side facing the road, comprising six panels, includes a one-story lean-to with a Welsh slate roof, containing a three-light, a two-light window, and a glazed door. Above the lean-to are a three-light window, two two-light windows one above the other, and a further two-light window.
Internally, chamfered beams and exposed roofs are visible. The roof over the main area, spanning three bays, consists of single purlins with tie beam trusses. Some timbers date to the 19th century.
Local climate
Cossington Mill receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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