Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. House. 1 related planning application.
Mill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- night-eave-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mill Cottage, the Causeway, Hitcham, IP7 7NF
- OS grid reference
- TL 986 515
- Coordinates
- 52.12672, 0.90019
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building originally constructed as a medieval hall house. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure topped with a thatched roof that is hipped at the south end. The cottage has one storey and attics, with small casement windows and a gabled porch. There is one dormer on the front and a ridge chimney stack. Inside, the cottage boasts heavy braced lie beams.
Local climate
Mill Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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