Kings Mill is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Watermill, offices, dwelling house.
Kings Mill
- WRENN ID
- vast-paling-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Watermill, offices, dwelling house
- Address
- Kings Mill, Kings Mill Lane, Great Shelford
- OS grid reference
- TL 458 515
- Coordinates
- 52.14312, 0.1295
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kings Mill is a watermill mainly from the late 19th century, but it includes part of an earlier mill from the 17th to 18th century to the north. The building now serves as offices and a dwelling house. It is timber framed, weatherboarded, and constructed with gault brick. The 17th to 18th century section features steeply pitched pantiled roofs. The main range spans the mill race and has a range to the north, standing two storeys tall with an attic. The ground floor contains garages, while above are 20th-century small pane casements. To the south, there are 19th-century extensions; one is made of gault brick with weatherboarded upper storeys and has four storeys, while the other is also of gault brick with a slate roof, featuring four original windows with cast iron glazing bars on each storey. A mill is mentioned in the Domesday Survey for Great Shelford.
Local climate
Kings Mill 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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