Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Mill House
- WRENN ID
- open-quoin-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Constituency
- Tamworth MP: Sarah Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mill House, Tamworth Road, Elford, B79 9BL
- OS grid reference
- SK 192 097
- Coordinates
- 52.68496, -1.71641
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill House is a house dating from the mid-18th century, with later additions. It is constructed of red brick with a plain tile roof featuring raised verges, and a brick central stack. The original house comprises a rectangular, north-south aligned main range facing east and a rear wing consisting of two parallel east-west aligned ranges, both facing west. In the early to mid-19th century, the main range was extended southwards to create an L-shaped plan, and a low, east-west aligned rear wing was added to the 19th-century extension.
The two-storey main range has dentilled eaves and three bays. It contains late 19th-century casement windows within 18th-century surrounds with segmental heads. A six-panelled door is located on the left, featuring a bracketed hood and a rectangular overlight with decorative iron glazing bars. An early to mid-19th century painted brick extension is present to the left, with two bays and casements with segmental heads.
The west elevation shows a twin-gabled, two-storey main house with three windows, featuring glazing bar casements with gauged brick heads and raised keystones. A 19th-century extension is visible to the right with scattered fenestration, alongside a single-storey gabled extension wing.
Inside, a dog-leg staircase features turned balusters, a ramped and wreathed handrail, and a carved open string. The rear wing contains a single ground-floor room with a fireplace flanked by round-headed niches with raised keys, and a dentilled cornice with egg and dart moulding over the niches. Large wall panelling is present on the north and south walls. The house was formerly the residence of the owner of Elford Mill and was once occupied by the late 18th-century novelist Robert Bage.
Local climate
Mill House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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 — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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