Windmill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1970. House.

Windmill Cottage

WRENN ID
twelfth-pier-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Northamptonshire
Constituency
Wellingborough and Rushden MP: Gen Kitchen (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 June 1970
Type
House
Address
Windmill Cottage, Station Road, Finedon
OS grid reference
SP 907 724
Coordinates
52.34235, -0.66919
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Windmill Cottage is a former windmill that was converted into a house around 1818 and altered in the mid-19th century by E.F. Law for William Mackworth-Dolben. The building is constructed of squared coursed ironstone with ashlar dressings and features a plain-tile roof from the 20th century. It has a circular plan and stands four stories tall. The ground floor has single, two-, and three-light stone-mullion windows on the first and second floors, while the fourth stage has single-light gabled windows at the front and rear. The building is topped with a corbelled and castellated parapet, likely designed by Law. To the left, there is a single-storey range with a one-window layout and ashlar gable parapets. Above the ground floor window, there is a circular inscribed tablet that was once a millstone, featuring the letters 'REST'. Additional inscribed tablets include 'WHI and MD' and 'Ex Mill Cottage'. There is a 20th-century extension to the right. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Windmill Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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