Upper Paradise Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1994. Mill. 3 related planning applications.

Upper Paradise Mill

WRENN ID
grim-loggia-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1994
Type
Mill
Address
Upper Paradise Mill, Park Lane, Macclesfield, SK11 6TL
OS grid reference
SJ 917 731
Coordinates
53.25551, -2.12485
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Upper Paradise Mill is a silk mill built between 1822 and 1824. It is constructed of brick and features a Welsh slate roof. The internal structure consists of timber beams supported by cast-iron columns, which have been replaced with rolled steel joists. The mill has five storeys and an eight-window range, with a segmentally-arched entry to the rear yard on the left and a doorway immediately to its right. The windows have been renewed in their original openings, featuring flat-arched heads and stone sills. There is moulded guttering at the eaves, and a privy tower along with an unlit elliptical stair tower projects from the rear.

Local climate

Upper Paradise Mill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 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 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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