Mill Cottage and Lower Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1989. Cottage.

Mill Cottage and Lower Mill Cottage

WRENN ID
stark-obsidian-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 May 1989
Type
Cottage
Address
Mill Cottage and Lower Mill Cottage, North Hill
OS grid reference
SX 261 770
Coordinates
50.56749, -4.45609
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mill Cottage and Lower Mill Cottage are a pair of cottages, likely built in the 18th century and extended in the mid and late 20th century. They are constructed from stone rubble with granite quoins and feature a steeply pitched slate roof with hipped ends and a gable end at the front. The cottages have a central stone rubble axial stack with dressed strings.

Originally, the cottages had a 'T' shaped plan, consisting of two one-room plan cottages with entrances that were likely located on the left and right sides, leading directly into the main rooms which share the central axial stack. The central projection at the front contains the two staircases, and the cottages were extended to the rear in the mid and late 20th century.

The exterior is two storeys high and almost symmetrical, with a three-window front that includes a central gabled full-height stair projection. The two staircases share a central 19th-century three-light casement window with a dressed stone flat arch and a blind quatrefoil in the gable end. Lower Mill Cottage, on the left, features a late 19th or 20th-century two-light casement on the ground floor and probably a 19th-century two-light casement on the first floor. Mill Cottage, on the right, has probably 19th-century two-light casements on both the ground and first floors, along with a 20th-century extension to the rear.

Inside Mill Cottage, there is a heavy central chamfered cross beam and slightly chamfered floor joists. The interior of Lower Mill Cottage has not been inspected.

Local climate

Mill Cottage and Lower Mill Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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