Mill End Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Mill End Cottage
- WRENN ID
- slow-trefoil-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mill End Cottage, Spains Hall Road, Finchingfield, CM7 4NH
- OS grid reference
- TL 681 334
- Coordinates
- 51.97425, 0.44694
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill End Cottage is an early 19th century pair of cottages, originally separate but now combined. The building is timber-framed, with plastered walls and a thatched roof. It has four bays facing east, with a central stack and a more recent stack at the right end. The cottage is single-storey with attics. The ground floor has three 20th-century casement windows. The first floor retains three original three-light windows, each with one wrought iron casement and diamond-leaded glass. A plain boarded door sits at the front. A monogram, “RB” within an oval plaque, is visible on the front elevation, likely referencing Ruggles-Brise. Inside, there are exposed axial beams and joists, and primary straight bracing. The building is listed for its group value.
Local climate
Mill End 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 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.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
- 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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