Great Alne Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1986. Corn mill. 8 related planning applications.
Great Alne Mill
- WRENN ID
- gilded-keep-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1986
- Type
- Corn mill
- Address
- Great Alne Mill, B49 6JA
- OS grid reference
- SP 122 588
- Coordinates
- 52.22801, -1.82243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A corn mill, dating to the early and late 19th century, built on the site of an earlier mill. The mill retains water-powered machinery that is still used to produce stone-ground flour, although the former breast wheel has been replaced with a vertically mounted metal turbine in the same location to utilize drive shafts and belts. Original features include the mill race, some internal structures, mill grindstones, associated gearing, and bagging machinery from around 1800. A building was added to the southeast side to house a roller mill, which has since been removed, along with the engine that powered it.
The main mill block is a gabled, three-story structure with an attic, built in two sections. The three-bay northeast section is the earlier part, while a four-bay section was added later. The northeast end of the added section is higher, with two additional stories to accommodate grain cleaner cyclones. It has a gabled roof surmounted by cast iron cowls. A double-span wing, with two gables, extends from the northwest side of the main block. Each gable wall features a pair of semi-circular arched windows on each floor, with small-paned cast iron frames. The left-hand gable has a boarded hoist housing projecting from the second floor to the ridge, and the right-hand gable has a similar arched window. A workshop is located in the angle between the main block and the wing, with corrugated iron wall cladding and roofing.
The main range has segmental arched windows with cast iron frames on each floor, along with brick dentil eaves cornices and brick dentil string courses to the added floors. A hoist housing with corrugated asbestos sheet cladding projects from the northeast gable.
Inside, the floors are boarded, supported by pitch pine and oak joists and bridging beams on circular cast iron columns. The roofs are primarily queen post and purlin construction. A two-story miller’s house, with some 20th-century alterations, is attached to the northeast side of the main block and has timber casement windows with glazing bars.
Local climate
Great Alne Mill receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 2000
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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