Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1967. Mill house. 1 related planning application.
Mill House
- WRENN ID
- lunar-gable-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1967
- Type
- Mill house
- Address
- Mill House, Main Road, Howe Street, Great Waltham, CM3 1BG
- OS grid reference
- TL 695 150
- Coordinates
- 51.80884, 0.4573
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill House is an 18th-century mill house situated 230 yards from Main Road and accessed via a drive. It is set within a picturesque landscape. The house is two storeys high with attics, and has a two-window front on the south side, featuring double-hung sash windows with glazing bars within flush cased frames. The ground floor windows have three lights. A central six-panel door is flanked by narrow reeded pilasters and has a flat hood supported by shaped brackets. Four gables are visible on the west side. The roof is tiled and includes two gabled dormers and end chimney stacks.
Local climate
Mill House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- 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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