Old Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. House.

Old Mill Cottage

WRENN ID
deep-flue-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 January 1986
Type
House
Address
Old Mill Cottage, Mill End, Rushden
OS grid reference
TL 302 317
Coordinates
51.96901, -0.1052
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Mill Cottage is a house that was formerly two dwellings, dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is weatherboarded and roughcast, topped with a thatched roof. Originally, it consisted of two contiguous two-cell lobby entries and is now one storey with an attic. The original doors have been blocked, leaving a single entrance at the center. The cottage has 20th-century casement windows with two and three lights, flush frames, and leaded lights, along with weatherboarding below the sill level. There are four leaded dormer windows with thatched eyebrows. The cottage has two ridge stacks. The right gable end facing the road has a ground floor two-light and a first floor single-light casement window set in a steeply pitched roof. At the back, there is an original continuous lean-to outshut under a catslide roof, which includes two 20th-century entrances. The left end has a hipped roof over a 20th-century addition that features an open ground floor and a first floor balcony supported by timber.

Local climate

Old 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 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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