Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Mill Cottage

WRENN ID
tall-crypt-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 August 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Mill Cottage, Belchamp Walter, CO10 7AS
OS grid reference
TL 824 410
Coordinates
52.03757, 0.65869
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mill Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that is timber framed and plastered, topped with a gabled thatched roof. The building has two storeys and features a catslide lean-to at the rear, which has painted weatherboarding on its east wall. The front of the cottage includes two semi-circular arch headed casement windows, one of which has leaded lights, along with a simple boarded door. The east gable also has a similar leaded light window with an opening iron casement light. There is a small ridge line stack located off-centre. Inside, the cottage contains an early 19th-century fire surround.

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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