Mill View and Hillcrest is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Cottage.
Mill View and Hillcrest
- WRENN ID
- stark-kitchen-sienna
- 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 View and Hillcrest, Wethersfield Road, Finchingfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 688 328
- Coordinates
- 51.96852, 0.45648
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill View and Hillcrest are a pair of cottages located on Wethersfield Road in Finchingfield. They date from the early 19th century or possibly earlier. The cottages are timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. They have five bays facing north, featuring an axial stack and a rear stack at the right end. The buildings are one storey high with attics.
Mill View, on the left, has three 19th-century casement windows, one additional casement in a slated swept dormer, and a plain boarded door. Hillcrest, on the right, has two 19th-century casements, two more in slated swept dormers, and a 20th-century door set in a trellised thatched porch. There is a lean-to extension at the right end of Hillcrest. The roof is half-hipped at both ends.
Local climate
Mill View and Hillcrest 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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