Drayton Mills is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1994. Corn mill.
Drayton Mills
- WRENN ID
- under-steeple-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1994
- Type
- Corn mill
- Address
- Drayton Mills, Cheshire Street, Market Drayton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 672 345
- Coordinates
- 52.90727, -2.48776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Drayton Mills is a corn mill built around 1898-1899 for William Rogers, a miller. It is constructed of brick Flettons with orange brick dressings and features slate roofs with gabled ends. The building has an L-shaped plan with a carriageway through the front range.
The exterior consists of three storeys and an attic, with a six-bay front divided by giant brick pilasters. The right-hand three bays are gabled, and there are six-pane windows with top-opening lights and cement lintels. The carriageway is located to the left of the centre and has blue brick jambs. The rear and side elevations feature multi-pane cast-iron windows with segmental arches set in giant segmentally-headed recessed panels. On the south side of the rear wing, there are loading doors on each floor, gabled at the head with hoist-housing. A corrugated asbestos extension is present at the first floor in the angle at the rear of the front range, and small louvred ventilators are located on the ridge of the roofs.
Inside, the timber beams of the wooden floors are supported by thin cast-iron columns, and the building has queen-post roofs. Some of the feed bins and seed cleaning and dressing machinery remain intact.
Local climate
Drayton Mills receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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