Fray's Cottage Old Mill House is a Grade II* listed building in the Hillingdon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1950. Residential.

Fray's Cottage Old Mill House

WRENN ID
western-entrance-wax
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Hillingdon
Constituency
Hayes and Harlington MP: John McDonnell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 March 1950
Type
Residential
Address
Fray's Cottage Old Mill House, Thorney Mill Road
OS grid reference
TQ 054 790
Coordinates
51.50086, -0.48248
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fray's Cottage and Old Mill House, dating from the late 18th century, is a notable building located on the north side of Thorney Mill Road in West Drayton. The structure is made of brown brick and stands three storeys high, featuring three double-hung sash windows with sills and yellow brick flat arches. The entrance boasts a tetrastyle Doric porch with arrow pilasters on either side of the three-panel double doors, which are flanked by windows with wood panels beneath. The first floor has a central Palladian French window, complemented by a fine wrought iron balcony railing. The building is topped with a parapet and a hipped Welsh slate roof. The right-hand wing is slightly set back and includes ground floor cambered relieving arches and first-floor round leaded arches. Inside, there is a good oval staircase with a skylight. Fray's Cottage, which is the right-hand wing, has a door that was inserted when it became a separate residence.

Local climate

Fray's Cottage Old Mill House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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