Mill Cottage

MILL COTTAGE, DIGSWELL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1101076
Date first listed:
04-Nov-1980
List Entry Name:
Mill Cottage
Statutory Address:
MILL COTTAGE, DIGSWELL LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1101076
Date first listed:
04-Nov-1980
List Entry Name:
Mill Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
MILL COTTAGE, DIGSWELL LANE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MILL COTTAGE, DIGSWELL LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Welwyn Hatfield (District Authority)
Parish:
Welwyn
National Grid Reference:
TL 24680 14849

Details

1. 5260 DIGSWELL LANE (north-west side) Mill Cottage TL 21 SW 1/17

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2. Probably early C18, with part rebuilt in early C20. Formerly a mill and millers' house, now a dwelling. Two storeys in red and blue bricks with tile roof. Four windows, one to the right blocked, the others casements of 2 and 3 lights. Three casement windows of 3 lights to the ground floor with segmental heads. Modern door. The mill stream still flows to the left of this section beneath a flat archway with an early C20 canted oriel window above. The wheel and other machinery have been removed. To the left of this one window below a dormer and the rest of the mill premises, converted into living accommodation in the early C20 and slightly taller in build, with a canted oriel above 2 windows. Some original ceiling beams with chamfer remain to the right-hand section. There has been a mill on this site from the time of Domesday Book.

Listing NGR: TL2468014849

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
158235
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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