The Cottages at King's Mills is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1962. Row of cottages.
The Cottages at King's Mills
- WRENN ID
- winter-loft-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1962
- Type
- Row of cottages
- Address
- The Cottages at King's Mills, Park Lane, Castle Donington
- OS grid reference
- SK 417 274
- Coordinates
- 52.84287, -1.38112
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottages at King's Mills is a row of former workers' cottages, now part of The Priest House Hotel. They date from the early 19th century and were refurbished in the 20th century. The cottages have colourwashed render, deep flat eaves, and a 20th-century tiled roof, with colour-washed render chimneys. The building is two storeys high and consists of nine bays. The ground floor features three-light cast iron windows with arched lights, though the lower halves of these lights have been altered to 20th-century wooden casements. The upper storey has paired wooden casements with single horizontal glazing bars, along with similar single lights between the bays. There are five 20th-century six-panelled doors with gabled timber porches, also renewed in the 20th century. The roof is hipped at the left end, and the chimneys have clusters of two or four chamfered square shafts. A narrow bay is set back at the right end, and there are double-storey 20th-century extensions to the left.
Local climate
The Cottages at King's Mills 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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