Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. Mill, mill house.
Mill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tangled-cinder-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1984
- Type
- Mill, mill house
- Address
- Mill Cottage, 96, High Street, West Coker
- OS grid reference
- ST 512 136
- Coordinates
- 50.91999, -2.69538
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill Cottage is a 19th-century building that serves as both a mill and a mill house. It features stone ashlar construction and a double Roman clay tiled roof with stepped coped gables, including intermediate coping between the mill and the house, and a gabletted finial at the south end. The mill is three stories tall, while the house is two stories, both under the same roofline, and each unit consists of three bays.
The first bay of the mill has a segmental arched doorway leading to the wheelhouse. The second bay features a chamfered stone mullioned surround with a two-light window, and the third bay has a cambered arched doorway that is now blocked with window infill. The two upper floors have casement windows in the second and third bays. There is a straight joint between the first and second bays of the mill, and the mill house projects slightly. The mill house is symmetrical, with a plain recessed central doorway and a four-panel door, along with two-light casement windows that have horizontal glazing bars.
There is also a lower two-story extension to the north that matches the main building. The interior has not been seen. This building is significant in local history as a flax mill, and it has an overshot mill wheel that is currently cased, with its condition unknown as of August 1983.
Local climate
Mill Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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