Bourne Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.

Bourne Mill Cottage

WRENN ID
dusk-hall-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tonbridge and Malling
Constituency
Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Bourne Mill Cottage, Carpenters Lane, Hadlow, TN11 0EX
OS grid reference
TQ 627 502
Coordinates
51.22835, 0.32953
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bourne Mill Cottage is a former miller's house with origins in the 18th century, believed to have originally been a bakery associated with the nearby mill. It was converted into a miller's house in the mid-19th century and refurbished with a studio addition around 1974. The cottage features white-washed brick, brick stacks and chimney shafts, and a slate roof on the main house, while the rest of the structure has a peg-tile roof.

The house faces south-southeast and has a two-room plan, with one room on each side of a central entrance hall and staircase. The left (west) room was once heated, but the stack is now disused. The right room has a rear lateral stack that also serves a lean-to outshot. The 20th-century studio addition on the right end is built as a crosswing, flush with the front, and features an outer lateral stack.

The main house is two storeys tall, while the studio is a single storey but built to the same height as the main house. There are outbuildings to the right (east) that are now used as a garage. The exterior of the main house has a symmetrical three-window front, with mid to late 19th-century full-height canted bay windows on either side, containing horned sashes with 12 panes in the front and 8 panes on each side. The first-floor centre features a rounded-headed window with glazing bars above the doorway, which has a 19th-century six-panel door behind a low-pitched gabled porch supported by plain posts. The low-pitched roof is hipped at both ends. The studio front has a full-height round-headed window with glazing bars, and its roof is also hipped. The lower outbuilding to the right has a blind wall at the front and a hipped roof. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Bourne Mill Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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