Lowdham Mill and Footbridge is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1961. Water mill, house. 4 related planning applications.
Lowdham Mill and Footbridge
- WRENN ID
- twisted-keep-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Sherwood Forest MP: Michelle Welsh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1961
- Type
- Water mill, house
- Address
- Lowdham Mill and Footbridge, Epperstone by Pass, NG14 7BY
- OS grid reference
- SK 666 473
- Coordinates
- 53.01913, -1.00817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lowdham Mill and Footbridge is a water mill and house, now used as a house, with an accompanying footbridge. The mill dates from the mid-18th century and the early 19th century. It is constructed of red brick with a pantile roof and features a single red brick stack at the rear. The building has dentil eaves and stands three storeys high plus a garret, with three bays. The doorway has a glazing bar door, and to the right is a single glazing bar casement, followed by an archway that houses a wood and iron water wheel. On the first and second floors, there are three similar casements, and in the garret, there is one more. All the casements and the doorway are set under segmental arches.
To the right of the mill is a two-storey wing made of painted brick with a pantile roof, featuring three large doorways with 20th-century doors and three segmental arched casements above. To the left of the mill, slightly set back, is an 18th-century rendered house with a plain tile roof, right gable, and single ridge red brick stacks, also with dentil eaves. This house is two storeys high and has three bays. It includes a doorway with a glazing bar double door, a single buttress to the left, a tripartite glazing bar cross casement, and a 19th-century rendered gabled porch with an arched entrance and an inner panelled door under a segmental arch. Above the porch are two glazing bar cross casements and a single light casement to the left. There is also a single circular tie plate. To the left of the house is a single-storey, single-bay rendered wing with a pantile roof, dentil eaves, and a single glazing bar tripartite casement.
In front of the mill, there is a footbridge with a 20th-century iron parapet, which terminates in squat ashlar coped brick piers and features a single brick arch underneath. The interior of the mill contains machinery for driving stones, including a great spur wheel and stone nuts, as well as a wheel for opening the sluice gate.
Local climate
Lowdham Mill and Footbridge 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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