Doughtys Oil Mill and Attached Gatehouse and Grain Store is a Grade II listed building in the Lincoln local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1969. Industrial building.
Doughtys Oil Mill and Attached Gatehouse and Grain Store
- WRENN ID
- gentle-string-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lincoln
- Constituency
- Lincoln MP: Mr Hamish Falconer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1969
- Type
- Industrial building
- Address
- Doughtys Oil Mill and Attached Gatehouse and Grain Store, Waterside South
- OS grid reference
- SK 978 711
- Coordinates
- 53.22796, -0.53569
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Doughty's Oil Mill, along with its attached gatehouse and grain store, is a former oil mill now used as an engineering works. It was built in 1863, with later 19th-century additions and 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of gault brick, featuring brick and stone dressings, and has a slate roof, showcasing a Baroque Revival style.
The exterior includes a channelled rusticated ground floor, eaves cornices, coped parapets, and pedimented gables. The windows are iron glazing bar casements; the ground floor has round-headed windows, while the upper floors have segment-headed windows. The oil mill is four storeys tall and consists of five bays, with a recessed centre that rises above the rest, flanked by two-bay wings defined by pilasters. A central segment-headed archway features quadrant jambs and spandrel panels inscribed with "Doughty's Oil Mill." Above this, there is a corniced projection with a datestone from 1863, and above that, a narrow vertical recess with a window on each floor. To the right of the archway are two windows, and to the left, there is a pair of panelled doors with a fanlight and a window. Each floor above has two windows on either side.
The gatehouse on the left has a pedimented centre with angle pilasters and a panelled parapet, featuring a pair of double doors in the centre. Above this, there is a mid-20th-century corrugated iron hoist enclosure cutting through the pediment.
The grain store, further left, is six storeys tall and consists of three bays, with rusticated pilasters and deep cornices on the top two floors. It has a higher pedimented gable with scroll brackets. The ground floor features three windows, and above, there is a full-height central recess with a round head and multiple keystones. There are hoist doors on three floors, with a round opening above them also featuring multiple keystones. An altered window is located above this, with a single window on each floor to the right. The left side has blocked windows and an attached full-height grain elevator. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Doughtys Oil Mill and Attached Gatehouse and Grain Store receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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