The Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Cottage.
The Mill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-rubblework-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Mill Cottage, Hever
- OS grid reference
- TQ 468 486
- Coordinates
- 51.21781, 0.10127
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mill Cottage is a 17th century or earlier timber-framed cottage located in Hever Four Elms. It has two storeys and features three irregularly placed windows. The roof is tiled and hipped at the right, with two small gables above the first-floor windows. There is a projecting chimney at the left end of the building. The cottage displays visible square framing with limewashed brick filling. Modern small leaded casements are present, including two oriel windows on the ground floor, which are sheltered by pent hoods. The oriel on the left extends to cover a plain boarded door.
Local climate
The Mill Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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