Mill Building Attached to Mill House and Tail Rail Tunnel Arch Beneath Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Doncaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1988. Mill building.

Mill Building Attached to Mill House and Tail Rail Tunnel Arch Beneath Mill House

WRENN ID
distant-gable-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Doncaster
Constituency
Doncaster North MP: Ed Miliband (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 March 1988
Type
Mill building
OS grid reference
SE 541 088
Coordinates
53.57389, -1.18421
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Mill Building attached to Mill House and the tail-race tunnel arch beneath Mill House is a water mill, likely built around 1786, although it has been altered over time. Constructed from rubble magnesian limestone with a stone slate roof, the building stands three storeys high and features two openings on the first floor, along with a two-storey wing at the rear right. The corners of the building are accentuated with quoins. To the left, there is a doorway framed in bonded ashlar with a two-piece round arch, while an unglazed casement window to the right is set beneath a segmental brick arch. On the first floor, there is a window to the right similar to the one below, and another doorway on the left with an arch matching that of the entrance. The second floor has two wooden-framed openings beneath the eaves. At the rear, to the left of the wing, the tail-race tunnel passes beneath the house and features a segmental arch with a keystone. The left side of the building has windows on all three floors and a gable, all topped with brick-arched heads.

Inside, there is a wooden platform that supports four sets of stones, mostly still in place. This platform has a nosed edge and heavy-scantling members, two of which have shaped ends. Three sturdy splat balusters are positioned between the platform and the ceiling beams. The first floor showcases chamfered, heavy-scantling beams, and the rear wing has a collared principal-rafter roof. The second floor features pattern-beak queen-post trusses with tusk-tenoned purlins. The adjacent house displays an exposed datestone with a shield flanked by scrolls, along with numerals indicating the date at each corner.

Local climate

Mill Building Attached to Mill House and Tail Rail Tunnel Arch Beneath Mill House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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