3 and 4 Mill End, Spains Hall Road is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1985. House. 1 related planning application.

3 and 4 Mill End, Spains Hall Road

WRENN ID
vast-spire-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 April 1985
Type
House
Address
3 and 4 Mill End, Spains Hall Road, Finchingfield, CM7 4NH
OS grid reference
TL 682 335
Coordinates
51.97469, 0.44794
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

3 and 4 Mill End is a house that has been divided into two cottages and is now combined. It dates from the 17th century and features a timber frame with plastering and a thatched roof. The building has four to five bays facing southwest, with an axial stack located one bay from the right end, which originally formed a lobby entrance, and an external stack at the left end. At the rear, there is a single-storey lean-to extension with a roof made of corrugated asbestos. The structure is one storey with attics.

No. 3, located on the left, has three 20th-century casement windows, three additional casements in slated swept dormers, and a 20th-century glazed door. No. 4, on the right, features one 18th-century two-light window with a wrought iron casement and diamond leaded panes, another two-light window in a slated swept dormer, and a 19th-century plain boarded door. A monogram "RB" in a circle, representing Ruggles-Brise, is painted on the front elevation. The roof is half-hipped at the right end only, and both stacks have grouped diagonal shafts. There is a similar 18th-century two-light window in the right return wall at first floor level.

Local climate

3 and 4 Mill End, Spains Hall Road 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 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • No sale records on file
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. 1 and 2 Mill End, Spains Hall Road Grade II 50 m
  2. Mill End Cottage Grade II 85 m
  3. 1 and 2 Primrose Cottages Grade II 570 m
  4. Riverside Grade II 581 m
  5. Rose Cottage and Corner Cottage Grade II 583 m
  6. 5, Duck End Grade II 595 m
  7. 1 and 3, Duck End Grade II 595 m
  8. Paigles and the Cottage Grade II 609 m
  9. Wall Extending North East from Spains Hall to Garden Pavilion Grade II 611 m
  10. Old Mill Cottage Grade II 612 m