Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1986. Mill house.

Mill Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 January 1986
Type
Mill house
Address
Mill Cottage, Charney Bassett
OS grid reference
SU 381 943
Coordinates
51.64702, -1.44982
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mill Cottage is a mill house and attached mill dating from around 1770. It is built of Flemish bond brick, with some flared headers, and features a 20th-century tile roof and brick stacks. The building has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys high, with a three-window range. There are segmental arches over a plank door and late 20th-century casements, along with a late 20th-century porch. The eaves are dentilled, and the roof is gabled with gable end stacks. At the rear, there is an 18th-century sash window with a shutter.

The attached mill, located to the right, has coursed limestone rubble on the ground floor and a weatherboarded first floor, topped with a hipped old tile roof. There is an outshut on the right side and a one-storey block at the front that housed the mill wheel, which is made of coursed limestone rubble and has a hipped 20th-century tile roof. The interior of the mill has not been inspected but retains its machinery. Drawings and descriptions of the machinery can be found in the Oxfordshire County Museum in Woodstock.

Local climate

Mill Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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