Papermills is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. A C18 Mill.
Papermills
- WRENN ID
- solemn-threshold-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Papermills, Newmarket Road, CB5 8PA
- OS grid reference
- TL 472 594
- Coordinates
- 52.21367, 0.15424
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Papermills is an early 18th-century building located on Newmarket Road. It is constructed of buff brick and has two storeys with an attic. The façade features six sash windows with glazing bars and two attic dormers that have 19th-century bargeboards. There is an early 19th-century trellis-work porch with a slated roof and external shutters. A continuous band runs at the first-floor level, complemented by a brick dentil eaves cornice and an old tile roof. The south gable end showcases a prominent chimney. Inside, there are some chamfered beams.
Adjacent to the building is a mill dated 1871, which is a rebuilding of an older mill. This mill is also two storeys and has a loft, constructed of weatherboard and gault brick, with a timber vent on the roof and a sack hoist at the rear. The mill has a slate roof but is noted to be in poor condition.
Local climate
Papermills sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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