Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. House.

Mill Cottage

WRENN ID
first-basalt-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 August 1986
Type
House
Address
Mill Cottage, Hall Road, Belchamp Walter
OS grid reference
TL 827 404
Coordinates
52.03278, 0.66281
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mill Cottage is a house that was formerly the miller's residence, dating from the mid 16th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a slate hipped roof. The building has two storeys and features later painted brick lean-tos on the north and east sides. The house consists of four bays, with the parlour located at the southern end. It has a large rectangular off-centre ridge line stack and a tall thin stack that rises through the roof of the northern lean-to. The windows are a mix of horizontal sliding sashes with small panes and 19th-century small pane casements. Inside, there is internal arched wall bracing in each bay and stop-chamfered floor joists. An early 19th-century corner cupboard is found in the former hall, which appears to have had an open central well instead of being fully open to the roof.

Local climate

Mill Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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