Cooks Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
Cooks Mill House
- WRENN ID
- buried-basalt-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cooks Mill House, Fordham Heath, West Bergholt
- OS grid reference
- TL 948 270
- Coordinates
- 51.9081, 0.83078
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cooks Mill House is a 18th-century building constructed of red brick in Flemish bond. It stands two storeys high and features three bays on the east front, with a central door on the ground floor. The door has six fielded panels beneath a semi-circular fanlight and an open pediment, framed by a wide doorcase with fielded returns. To either side of the door are three-part sash windows, with matching sashes above and a narrow sash window centrally located on the first storey. The eaves are adorned with a dentil cornice, and the roof is hipped and covered with peg tiles. The house has three similar ranges aligned east-west, with red brick chimneys positioned on the left and right. The entrance is marked by stone gatepiers topped with pineapples and a wrought iron gate.
Local climate
Cooks Mill House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
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