Smock Mill is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. Mill. 1 related planning application.
Smock Mill
- WRENN ID
- frozen-bailey-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Smock Mill, Mill Lane, Swannington
- OS grid reference
- SK 410 170
- Coordinates
- 52.74996, -1.39345
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smock Mill is an 18th-century tower mill located off Loughborough Road in Swannington. It is constructed of brick and stands three storeys tall. The mill features a doorway and several plain rectangular openings. There are slight remains of the cap still visible.
Local climate
Smock Mill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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