Plessey Mill, Adjoining Plessey Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1987. Water mill.

Plessey Mill, Adjoining Plessey Mill House

WRENN ID
worn-basalt-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Cramlington and Killingworth MP: Emma Foody (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 July 1987
Type
Water mill
OS grid reference
NZ 237 796
Coordinates
55.11084, -1.62946
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Plessey Mill, located next to Plessey Mill House, is a water mill that was originally built in the 18th century and later remodeled and heightened in the 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with cut quoins and dressings, featuring tooled-and-margined upper floors, and has a Welsh slate roof.

The west elevation has four storeys and three bays. The central bay is set forward and contains tall boarded double doors. Above this bay, the wall is blank except for two circular iron plates that hold tie-rods, with various windows on the two-bay right return. The bay to the left of the projection has an arched opening, which has later glazing, leading to the wheelpit. The bay to the right features a stable door with a boarded loft door above it. The windows include various small-paned sashes and 20th-century small-paned casements. The roof is hipped, and there is a banded stack on the right side.

At the rear, there is a two-storey section with a pent roof and a lower gabled wing that projects beyond, featuring similar window styles. All machinery has been removed from the mill.

Local climate

Plessey Mill, Adjoining Plessey Mill House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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