Nether Alderley Mill and Dam Wall is a Grade II* listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 July 1952. A Post-Medieval Water mill. 2 related planning applications.
Nether Alderley Mill and Dam Wall
- WRENN ID
- eastward-timber-laurel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 July 1952
- Type
- Water mill
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Nether Alderley Mill and Dam Wall, Congleton Road, SK10 4TW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 843 762
- Coordinates
- 53.28291, -2.23634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 16th-century water mill, with machinery added in 1850 and 1871, and restored between 1967 and 1970 for the National Trust. It is constructed of ashlar buff-pink sandstone with a Kerridge stone-slate roof and stone ridge. The rectangular mill plan is designed so that water enters at roof level. The west front features a long cat-slide roof with four louvred raking dormers. A low wall has three openings, including a four-board door with iron strap hinges, approached by three stone steps. The gables have herringboned timber trusses. A rebated four-light chamfered stone mullion (with one mullion remaining) is on the left side, and a chamfered stone doorcase is on the right side.
Inside, the mill has four levels, with two massive oak posts passing through them to support arch-braced queen post roof trusses, with wind-braced purlins and ridge. It contains two overshot water wheels, one above the other, along with the remaining working machinery to drive two pairs of French stones. Attached to the south is a complex of brick-vaulted chambers, originally a drying kiln, with a perforated floor now concreted over.
Immediately behind the mill, and linked by the penstock, is the contemporary ashlar dam wall.
Local climate
Nether Alderley Mill and Dam Wall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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