Mill Cottage and Attached Water Pump is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1988. Mill house. 9 related planning applications.
Mill Cottage and Attached Water Pump
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1988
- Type
- Mill house
- Address
- Mill Cottage and Attached Water Pump, Saxby Road, Freeby, LE14 2SF
- OS grid reference
- SK 812 188
- Coordinates
- 52.76099, -0.79705
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill Cottage and the attached water pump is a former watermill and mill house, now functioning as a house. It was built in the mid-19th century with additions made in the mid-20th century. The structure is constructed of brick with stone dressings and features pantile roofs. It has gables with bargeboards and a grouped central ridge stack with stalks set diagonally. The building is single storey plus attics and consists of three bays.
The east front showcases a central gabled porch that includes a Tudor arched doorway with a plank door, and above it is a blank-moulded panel. To the left, there is a casement window, followed by another casement with a hood mould, both featuring moulded stone reveals. Further left, there is a lead pump housed in a wooden case. To the right of the porch, there is a lean-to addition, and next to it is a wheel opening with a segmental head. Above this opening, there is a two-light mullioned casement. The front also features a central gabled cross eaves dormer with a two-light mullioned casement.
On the west side, there is an off-centre three-light mullioned casement flanked by single 20th-century buttresses. To the left, a round-headed tail race opening is flanked by single buttresses, with a small casement above it that has a moulded reveal and hood mould. Above this, there is a central cross eaves gabled dormer with a two-light mullioned casement.
The north gable includes a projecting three-light mullioned casement with a brick surround, flanked by two small square casements. Above this, there is a central mullioned casement. The south gable features a three-light mullioned casement on each floor, with the upper one having a hooded projecting surround. To the right, there is a mid-20th-century gabled addition with a glazed door in the return angle, and to the south, there is a three-light casement.
The interior has not been inspected, and no machinery is visible. This building was originally erected as an estate mill for Stapleford Park.
Local climate
Mill Cottage and Attached Water Pump sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 6 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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