Birds Edge Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1981. Mill.

Birds Edge Mill

WRENN ID
forbidden-tracery-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 June 1981
Type
Mill
Address
Birds Edge Mill, Penistone Road, Denby Dale
OS grid reference
SE 201 079
Coordinates
53.56774, -1.69653
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Birds Edge Mill is a mill built in the early to mid 19th century, consisting of four sections. It is constructed from hammer dressed stone and features a stone slate roof. The section closest to the road has four storeys and measures seven bays long by four bays wide, with nine-light industrial casements and a Venetian window in each gable apex. To the north gable, there is a lower three-storey range that has 28 bays and was built in three phases. This range also has industrial casements and includes one bay of loading doors, with a Venetian window in the north gable apex.

Local climate

Birds Edge Mill receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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