North Mill to Cheddleton Flint Mill is a Grade II* listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1986. Water mill. 3 related planning applications.
North Mill to Cheddleton Flint Mill
- WRENN ID
- watchful-pilaster-summer
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1986
- Type
- Water mill
- Address
- North Mill to Cheddleton Flint Mill, Cheadle Road, ST13 7HL
- OS grid reference
- SJ 972 526
- Coordinates
- 53.07097, -2.04281
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The North Mill to Cheddleton Flint Mill is a water mill built for grinding flint, constructed between 1756 and 1765, possibly by the engineer James Brindley. It features a red brick structure with sandstone quoins and a tiled roof. The mill is two stories high and has a single-window west front. The first floor includes a segmental-headed cast-iron casement above a wide segmental-headed boarded door, with a lean-to on the left side. To the right-hand gable, there is a timber and cast-iron undershot wheel situated in a mill race that is taken off the River Churnet and shared with the South Mill. This mill is part of a larger complex that includes furnaces and drying kilns, all located in a close and attractive group. Flint was processed here by being fired, ground in the mills, and bake-dried to create 'slop', which was an admixture used to produce more durable and finely-textured tiles and pottery for the nearby Five Towns in the 19th century.
Local climate
North Mill to Cheddleton Flint Mill receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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