Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1980. A C18 Cottage.
Mill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-sandstone-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mill Cottage, Digswell Lane
- OS grid reference
- TL 246 148
- Coordinates
- 51.81838, -0.19252
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill Cottage is probably from the early 18th century, with part of it rebuilt in the early 20th century. Originally a mill and the millers' house, it is now a dwelling. The building has two storeys and is constructed of red and blue bricks with a tiled roof. It features four windows, one of which is blocked, while the others are casements with two and three lights. The ground floor has three casement windows of three lights, each with segmental heads, and there is a modern door. To the left, the mill stream still flows beneath a flat archway, with an early 20th-century canted oriel window above. The original wheel and other machinery have been removed. To the left of the main section, there is one window below a dormer, and the remaining mill premises were converted into living accommodation in the early 20th century; this section is slightly taller and has a canted oriel window above two windows. Some original ceiling beams with chamfer remain in the right-hand section. A mill has existed on this site since the time of the Domesday Book.
Local climate
Mill Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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