Old Mills Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1979. Cottage.
Old Mills Cottage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-basalt-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Mills Cottage, Great Barford
- OS grid reference
- TL 128 509
- Coordinates
- 52.14566, -0.35202
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Mills Cottage is a former lock keeper's cottage, dated 1845, with the initials "TGC" referring to Thomas Cullum, who owned the navigation rights for this section of the river. The cottage is built of mottled yellow brick, accented with red brick quoins and opening surrounds, and features some ashlar dressings. It has a clay tile roof and is designed in a T-plan, standing two storeys tall with an attic and a one-storey lean-to addition at one angle. The architectural style is Tudor. The windows are cast iron lattice casements with moulded stone labels. The door on the west elevation has a pointed arched head beneath a square dripstone and decorated spandrels. The gable ends are adorned with wavy-edged pierced bargeboards. Some openings on the north and east elevations have been bricked up, and new openings were created in the east elevation in 1981.
Local climate
Old Mills Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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