Bretby Mill is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1981. Watermill. 1 related planning application.
Bretby Mill
- WRENN ID
- open-gravel-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1981
- Type
- Watermill
- Address
- Bretby Mill, Repton Road, DE15 0RG
- OS grid reference
- SK 310 233
- Coordinates
- 52.80648, -1.54152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bretby Mill is an early 19th-century watermill located on the east side of Repton Road in Bretby. The building is constructed of red brick and features a plain tile roof with a stepped eaves cornice. It stands three storeys tall and has a three-bay west elevation. The central section includes a segmental arched doorway with a plank door. To the left of this doorway is a segmental arched window, while to the right are two square openings. On the first floor, there is a segmental headed doorway and a smaller segmental arched window. The top floor is adorned with three flat arched 2-light windows that have Yorkshire sashes. At the rear, there is a roofless outshut that once housed the waterwheel, although most of the machinery has been removed. The building is currently disused and in a semi-derelict condition.
Local climate
Bretby Mill receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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