Mill Lane Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Mill Lane Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pale-gargoyle-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mill Lane Cottage, 16, Chapel Lane, Willington, MK44 3QG
- OS grid reference
- TL 114 501
- Coordinates
- 52.13834, -0.37313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
An 18th-century cottage located on Chapel Lane in Willington. The building is timber-framed with some brick and plaster infill. The roof is thatched, with a hipped section to the west end. It is a single-storey building, originally with a four-room plan. The windows are mostly casements with glazing bars, dating from the 20th century. The central front door is also 20th-century. A lean-to addition, timber-framed with an old clay tile roof, is situated to the right of the front door. A red brick ridge stack is positioned between the front door and the addition.
Local climate
Mill Lane 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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