Quy Water Mill is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1980. Watermill.

Quy Water Mill

WRENN ID
hollow-wattle-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1980
Type
Watermill
Address
Quy Water Mill, Newmarket Road, Stow Cum Quy
OS grid reference
TL 508 598
Coordinates
52.21596, 0.20684
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Quy Water Mill is an early 19th-century watermill constructed of gault brick with a hipped slate roof. The building stands four storeys high and features three 'bays' on its south elevation. Each floor has three cast iron framed windows with glazing bars, although some have been displaced as of 1983. On the north elevation, there is a cantilevered winch hoist platform at the third floor. The basement is arched over the mill stream and has splayed retaining walls, with the waterwheel still in place. The mill was operational until 1950.

Local climate

Quy Water 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 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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