Mill Cottage immediately east of Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1991. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Mill Cottage immediately east of Mill House
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- steep-keystone-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1991
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mill Cottage immediately east of Mill House, Mill Road, Finchingfield, CM7 4LG
- OS grid reference
- TL 689 322
- Coordinates
- 51.96274, 0.45716
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill Cottage, located immediately east of Mill House, is likely a 18th-century or earlier building, possibly a former brew house or agricultural building. The cottage has a timber frame with plaster above a weatherboarded plinth. The roof is covered with handmade clay plain tiles, featuring half-round ridge tiles to the hips. A brick stack remains on the south elevation. The ground floor has a 20th-century casement window. A gabled dormer with a side-hung casement is on the east side and the roof is hipped with a central finial.
Inside, a large chamfered cross beam with run-out stops is visible, along with unchamfered joists. A later partition creates a rear (west) room. From this room rise winder stairs to the attic. The first floor has also been partitioned and the roof is ceiled, but the wall plate is exposed.
The site is presumed to be one of the seven mill sites in the Finchingfield parish. This building may have been an ancillary structure to the former mill and house.
Local climate
Mill Cottage immediately east of 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 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 — 5 transactions since 1999
- 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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