Tugford Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 2000. Watermill.

Tugford Mill

WRENN ID
drifting-cinder-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 February 2000
Type
Watermill
Address
Tugford Mill, Abdon and Heath
OS grid reference
SO 557 870
Coordinates
52.47922, -2.65239
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tugford Mill is a late 18th-century watermill constructed from stone rubble with a plain-tile roof. It has a rectangular two-cell plan and stands two stories tall with an attic. The front features a door on the left and an unglazed window on the right at the first floor. On the ground floor, there is a doorway with a wooden lintel to the left, a three-light window in the center, and an additional opening for the mill wheel on the right. All openings are topped with brick segmental arches. The right return gable has one opening on each storey, with a brick segmental arch at ground level and opposing attic openings in each gable.

Inside, the mill machinery includes an internal overshot wheel that is 6 meters in diameter and 0.57 meters wide, featuring iron shrouds and buckets, along with a wooden header box. There is a slightly bevelled iron pitwheel measuring 3.1 meters in diameter, a tentering screw inset in a post, and two mill bedstones located on the first floor. The floors are supported by chamfered bridging beams, and the roof consists of a two-bay single trenched-purlin design with a central twin raking-strut truss.

Local climate

Tugford Mill receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% 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 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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