Mill House (Hamilton Kerr Institute) and Mill is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. House, mill. 7 related planning applications.
Mill House (Hamilton Kerr Institute) and Mill
- WRENN ID
- twisted-oriel-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- House, mill
- Address
- Mill House (Hamilton Kerr Institute) and Mill, Mill Lane, Whittlesford, CB22 4NE
- OS grid reference
- TL 477 483
- Coordinates
- 52.11413, 0.15624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill House, also known as the Hamilton Kerr Institute, is a building located on Mill Lane in Whittlesford. It was designed by Ebenezer Hollick, a miller who died in 1828, and features a brick structure dated 1763 near the entrance. The building has 19th-century and 1970s additions and alterations. It is constructed of red brick with gauged brick and limestone dressings, topped with plain tiled roofs.
The house is two storeys tall with attics and has a double pile plan, presenting an irregular five-bay facade. It features a plain parapet with gables at either end and stacks. A moulded brick cornice and a band separate the floors, and the plinth is also brick. The first floor is brick coursed with headers. The entrance is adorned with Doric pilasters and an entablature, while there are four ground floor and five first floor slightly recessed twelve-paned hung sash windows, each with segmental brick arched heads and stone console keys. Two hipped dormer windows are also present.
Inside, most details are from the 19th century, including two first floor eared wooden fireplaces. A late 18th-century white marble fireplace has been removed. The mill, which consists of two ranges connected by a cartway, has been modified for use as studios, a library, and living accommodation. Some corn bins remain in the attic, along with a pulley wheel, although other machinery has been removed.
Local climate
Mill House (Hamilton Kerr Institute) and Mill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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