The Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1978. Residential. 1 related planning application.

The Mill House

WRENN ID
eastward-eave-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Welwyn Hatfield
Constituency
Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 February 1978
Type
Residential
Address
The Mill House, Lemsford Village, AL8 7TP
OS grid reference
TL 219 123
Coordinates
51.79663, -0.23298
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Mill House is a mill owner's house built around 1838-39, located on the north-west side of Lemsford Village, backing onto the south end of the Mill. It was extended to the sides and rear around 1850-60 in a manner that is sympathetic to the original design. The house is constructed of yellow stock brick and is two stories high with a three-bay entrance front that faces the road, topped with a hipped slate roof and featuring a central dormer. The outer windows are tripartite, with a single sash window above the doorway, and all windows have shallow revealed glazing bar sashes. The arches above the windows are slightly cambered and made of gauged brick. The entrance features a six-reeded-panel door with a lobe pattern fan above it. To the left, a shallow gabled wing from the 1850-60 period projects forward and has similar tripartite windows. The side of the house also has glazing bar sashes, and there are tripartite windows at the rear. The Mill House has important group value with the mill complex.

Local climate

The Mill House 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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