Castle Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. A Industrial Revolution Mill.
Castle Mill
- WRENN ID
- south-postern-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- Mill
- Period
- Industrial Revolution
- Address
- Castle Mill, Littlesdale Road, Quernmore
- OS grid reference
- SD 520 609
- Coordinates
- 54.04183, -2.73442
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Mill is a corn mill built in 1818, now used as a farm building. It is constructed from sandstone rubble and has a slate roof. The building has two and three storeys. The north-west wall features a 20th-century lean-to on the left. To the right, there are two bays with sashed windows that have plain stone surrounds on the first and second floors. On the ground floor, there is a two-light window with a plain stone surround, square mullion, and glazing bars. To the left of this window is a door with a plain stone surround. On the right side, the stone walls support a 34½-foot-diameter, 4-foot-wide pitchback water wheel, which has wooden buckets, rim drive, and metal arms and tie bars. At the rear, there is a wide barn entrance at first floor level, accessible by a ramp, along with a wing that contains a drying kiln. The interior is reported to have complete mill machinery, including mill wheels.
Local climate
Castle Mill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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