Mill Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Cottage.
Mill Hill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-buttress-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mill Hill Cottage, Bolnhurst and Keysoe
- OS grid reference
- TL 076 627
- Coordinates
- 52.25257, -0.42495
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill Hill Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located in Bolnhurst and Keysoe. It features a timber frame with colour washed brick infill and a thatched roof. The cottage has a two-room plan and is one storey with attics. There are three windows on the ground floor, with the central window replacing the original front door, and two dormers above, all fitted with 20th-century two-light casements. A red brick integral stack is positioned at the southeast gable end. There is a 19th-century two-storey addition at the northwest gable end, constructed of colour washed brick with a slate roof, featuring 20th-century casements and a 20th-century front door under an open gabled porch. Additionally, there is a one-storey addition at the southeast gable end.
Local climate
Mill Hill 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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