Higham Mill (Including Mill House, Granary and Cottage) is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1983. Mill. 7 related planning applications.
Higham Mill (Including Mill House, Granary and Cottage)
- WRENN ID
- wild-quoin-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1983
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Higham Mill (Including Mill House, Granary and Cottage), Hermitage Road, ME3 7ND
- OS grid reference
- TQ 723 716
- Coordinates
- 51.41791, 0.47689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
An 18th-century building, likely constructed around 1760 by Sir Richard Head, comprising a Mill House, Granary, and Cottage, all under a single tiled roof. The building is a long, single range of two storeys. The Mill House occupies the eastern end and features stuccoed walls, two windows with intact glazing bars in sash windows, and a modern porch. The central Granary has four windows, while the Cottage at the western end has one. The Granary and Cottage are stuccoed on the ground floor and weatherboarded above, with distinctive sprocket eaves.
Local climate
Higham Mill (Including Mill House, Granary and 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- 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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