Hinxton Watermill and Millers' Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1977. Watermill, cottage. 1 related planning application.
Hinxton Watermill and Millers' Cottage
- WRENN ID
- far-corbel-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1977
- Type
- Watermill, cottage
- Address
- Hinxton Watermill and Millers' Cottage, Mill Lane, CB10 1RD
- OS grid reference
- TL 493 452
- Coordinates
- 52.08547, 0.1778
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hinxton Watermill and Miller's Cottage is a watermill and attached cottage located on Mill Lane in Hinxton. The cottage dates back to the 17th century, with additions made around 1766, as indicated by a dated stack. The mill was built in the late 18th century and underwent alterations in the 19th century. The structure features timber framing, plastering, and weatherboarding, along with 19th-century gault brick. The roofs are thatched, pantiled, and made of corrugated iron.
The buildings are arranged in an L-plan, with the mill situated to the northwest. The mill is two storeys high with an attic, and it is connected to a north-south cottage range that is one storey tall with attics. On the north elevation, the original mill is weatherboarded with a brick plinth. It has a loft door and a boarded entrance door on the left, a double door to the wheelhouse on the right of centre, and another loft door and boarded entrance door at the extreme right. There are two twelve-paned hung sash windows on the first floor and one on the ground floor, along with a large hung sash window featuring margin glazing bars set in a segmental brick arch. The gable of the cottage is cased in brick, with a glazed door and a large first-floor hung sash window.
The east elevation of the cottage has plain tall red brick stacks on both sides, two ground-floor twelve-paned hung sash windows, and two gabled dormer windows with casements. Inside the mill, the original undershot mill wheel was removed around 1914, and a "Little Giant" turbine, manufactured by J C Wilson & Co in Picton, Ontario, was installed to drive three mill stones. A lay shaft provides power to a sack hoist and water pump, and the interior includes machine and corn bins, chutes, hoppers, and other equipment. The mill was last operational in 1950 and is currently owned by the Cambridge Cottage Preservation Society.
Local climate
Hinxton Watermill and Millers' Cottage 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 2002
- 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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