Former Corn and Saw Mill with Smithy at Moss House is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. Former corn and saw mill, smithy. 1 related planning application.
Former Corn and Saw Mill with Smithy at Moss House
- WRENN ID
- open-bracket-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Former corn and saw mill, smithy
- Address
- Former Corn and Saw Mill with Smithy at Moss House, Spout Lane, Wennington
- OS grid reference
- SD 620 708
- Coordinates
- 54.13198, -2.58252
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former corn and saw mill with smithy at Moss House is a steam-powered facility built in 1845 by W.A.F. Saunders of Wennington Hall. It is part of a model farm and constructed from local coursed freestone with a blue Ulverston slate roof. The building is a symmetrical two-storey range with a layout of 2:4:2, featuring a central gable with window bays and slightly recessed lean-to extensions on either side.
Stone end stacks are present, and bays 2 and 7 have large elliptically headed keyed wagon entrances leading into the saw mill/joiners' shop and straw barn, respectively, with openings above. There are windows and a taking-in doorway in bays 1 and 8. The central block includes the corn mill on the left and a threshing/winnowing room on the right, each with separate doorways. The upper floors have openings, some fitted with sashes that have small panes. Above the datestone, which is eroded, there is a gable opening.
The lean-to on the left housed the smithy, with a window above the doorway, while the lean-to on the right contained a cart shed, now with an enlarged entry. All openings are under stone lintels with stone sills. At the rear, there is a stack and engine house. This range serves as the mechanised and food-processing unit of the farm and is completely separated from the livestock shelters to the south, with which it groups.
Local climate
Former Corn and Saw Mill with Smithy at Moss House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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