1 and 2 Mill End, Spains Hall Road is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. A C18 Cottage.
1 and 2 Mill End, Spains Hall Road
- WRENN ID
- buried-grate-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 1 and 2 Mill End, Spains Hall Road, Finchingfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 682 334
- Coordinates
- 51.97427, 0.44769
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 1 and 2, Mill End are a pair of handed cottages built in the late 18th century. They are timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The cottages have four bays facing southwest and feature a central stack. At the rear, there are three small lean-to extensions. The buildings are one storey high with attics and include three 18th-century two-light windows, each with one wrought iron casement and rectangular leaded panes, along with two additional windows in slated swept dormers. There are also two 20th-century slated gabled porches with doors at the front. An oval plaque with the monogram RB, representing Ruggles-Brise, is located in the center of the front elevation. The roof is half-hipped at both ends, and there is one similar window in each return elevation at first floor level. The main structural members of the frame are made from good quality imported pine, and some of the wrought iron casements still have their original spring latches.
Local climate
1 and 2 Mill End, Spains Hall Road 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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