The Old Mill is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1988. Mill. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Mill
- WRENN ID
- distant-wall-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1988
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- The Old Mill, Highgate, Helpringham, NG34 0RD
- OS grid reference
- TF 135 404
- Coordinates
- 52.94983, -0.31182
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Mill is a tower mill built in 1864. It is located on the west side of Highgate in Helringham. The mill is constructed of red brick, coated with bitumen, and features a tapering tower with a distinctive dogtooth eaves course. The tower rises three storeys and includes a ground floor doorway above which is an ashlar datestone inscribed "J.B.", referring to the builder, Boreham. Each floor has two glazing bar casements, with segmental brick heads and ashlar cills to all openings. The roof is a low, conical wooden cap covered with canvas. While most of the original milling gear was removed in the 1930s, several original features remain, including bins, sack hoists, and other fittings.
Local climate
The Old Mill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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