Millfield Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. House.
Millfield Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-pediment-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Millfield Cottage, Browns End Road, Broxted
- OS grid reference
- TL 575 251
- Coordinates
- 51.90302, 0.28855
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Millfield Cottage is a 17th-century house that is timber framed and plastered, featuring a hipped, thatched roof. The building has one storey with attics and a five-window range that includes both 17th-century and modern casements. A central chimney stack made of red brick dates back to the 17th century. The front of the cottage is weatherboarded up to the dado level and includes two gabled dormers. There are also modern lean-to extensions at each end of the cottage.
Local climate
Millfield Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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