Mill building at Priory Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Doncaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1988. Mill building. 3 related planning applications.

Mill building at Priory Mill

WRENN ID
slow-gable-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Doncaster
Constituency
Doncaster North MP: Ed Miliband (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 March 1988
Type
Mill building
Address
Mill building at Priory Mill, Norton Mill Lane, Norton, DN6 9BX
OS grid reference
SE 541 158
Coordinates
53.63636, -1.18264
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The mill building at Priory Mill is an early 19th-century water-powered corn mill. It features partly roughcast rubble with stone slate eaves courses and pantile roofs. The structure is two storeys high with a loft and has two windows on the first floor. To the north, there is an attached single-storey wheel-house over the mill race. Much of the east and south sides are obscured by 20th-century single-storey additions that are not of special interest. The south side includes a door flanked by casement windows (within a later addition) and first-floor windows with flat brick arches. There is a brick end stack on the left.

At the rear, the wheel-house has a central doorway and a pitched roof with stone-slate verges. On the right return, there is an ashlar arch beneath the wheel-house featuring a projecting keystone.

Inside, the wheel-house retains a breast-shot, eight-spoke cast-iron wheel, which was in poor condition at the time of the last survey. The main building has a sturdy wooden platform against the left gable, with gearing beneath and vertical shafts rising to positions for two sets of stones. There is a sack hoist with double trap doors to each floor, and the millstones are now set in the paving outside.

Local climate

Mill building at Priory Mill 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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