The Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House.

The Mill House

WRENN ID
gilded-floor-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1967
Type
House
Address
The Mill House, Mill Road, Great Bardfield
OS grid reference
TL 679 311
Coordinates
51.95335, 0.44329
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Mill House is a house dating from the 18th century, with extensions added in the early 19th century. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has a rectangular plan facing south, featuring a central entrance passage with one room on each side. There is an internal stack in the right bay and an external stack on the left return wall. The house has two-storey extensions at the rear and to the left, along with a two-storey lean-to extension at the northwest corner. It stands two storeys high with attics and has a three-window range of 18th-century sashes, each with 12 lights. The central entrance has a four-panel door, with the upper panels glazed, set in a pedimented doorcase. The roof is hipped. On the west elevation, the ground floor features two early 19th-century sashes with 20 lights, while the first floor has two similar sashes and one 20th-century sash with 12 lights. There is also a horizontally sliding sash with 12 lights in a gabled dormer and a central four-panel door in a moulded doorcase with a shallow hood supported by scrolled brackets.

Local climate

The Mill House 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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