Old Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Old Mill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-gateway-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Mill Cottage, Duck End, Finchingfield, CM7 4NA
- OS grid reference
- TL 685 329
- Coordinates
- 51.9698, 0.45205
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Mill Cottage is a house dating from the 18th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber-framed and has plaster walls and a thatched roof. The house has four bays facing northwest, with a stack located near the front pitch of the roof towards the left end, and two stacks in the rear pitch near the right end. A single-storey crosswing projects forward on the right side. A 19th-century stack is situated at the front angle and terminates at eaves level. The cottage is one storey high, with attics. On the ground floor are two 18th-century windows with three lights, each fitted with a single wrought iron casement, and one 20th-century casement. There are two 20th-century casements in swept dormers. A plain boarded door is present. The building is listed for group value.
Local climate
Old Mill 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- 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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