Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1999. Cottage.
Mill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-finial-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1999
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mill Cottage, Howgill Lane, Sedbergh, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 632 949
- Coordinates
- 54.34852, -2.56742
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill Cottage is a cottage, probably built in the early 18th century, that has been extended and altered. It is constructed of coursed mixed rubble with sandstone quoins and has a stone-coloured composition tile roof. The building has a single-depth, two-unit plan, along with a set-back extension at the left end, which was formerly a lean-to but has recently been raised.
The cottage has two low storeys and features a main range with two windows. A continuous stone-slate drip-course runs over the ground floor. The doorway is offset to the right and has a flat-arched head made of rubble voussoirs, though it is now covered by a porch. The doorway includes a pegged wooden doorcase and a studded plank door with strap hinges, protected by a shallow gabled porch with a stone slab roof. To the left of the door is a square casement window with thin glazing bars, and to the right is a rectangular window with altered glazing, both featuring flat-arched heads similar to the doorway. On the first floor, there is a rectangular 9-pane window to the left with one opening pane in the top row, and an oblong casement window to the right with a similar opening pane in the top row. A gable chimney is located to the left. The former lean-to at the left end now has an upper floor with a window. The right-hand end of the cottage adjoins the gable wall of Mill House.
Inside, there is a large ceiling beam and a panelled partition that forms a very narrow room at the right-hand end. Mill Cottage forms a group with Mill House, which is adjacent to the right, and with Millers Cottage, located to the right of that.
Local climate
Mill Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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