Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1985. Cottage.

Mill Cottage

WRENN ID
waning-tallow-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 January 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Mill Cottage, the Kennels, Brent Pelham
OS grid reference
TL 433 313
Coordinates
51.9618, 0.08447
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mill Cottage is a 19th-century former mill cottage that features a timber frame and weatherboarding on a brick plinth, topped with a slate roof. The building stands two storeys high and consists of three bays. It has casement windows and a front entrance doorway that is sheltered by a canopy supported by small consoles. There are two brick chimney stacks located on the front range. At the rear, there is a gabled extension that includes a brick chimney stack, which is topped with two diagonally set shafts.

Local climate

Mill 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 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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