The Mill House and Attached Mill Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House, water mill.
The Mill House and Attached Mill Buildings
- WRENN ID
- solemn-plinth-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, water mill
- Address
- The Mill House and Attached Mill Buildings, Down Hall, Abington Pigotts
- OS grid reference
- TL 304 436
- Coordinates
- 52.07611, -0.09836
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mill House and attached mill buildings are a house that was formerly the mill house, dating from the mid-17th century, with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, featuring a common brick ridge stack that has replaced the original. It has a plain tiled roof and stands two storeys high, with three timber-framed bays and a slightly modified original three-unit plan. The entrance has a four-panelled door in a lobby entry position, and there are three ground floor and four first floor horizontal sliding sash and casement windows of various sizes.
Inside, there is a sealed red brick hearth with some clunch walling, exposed floor frames, and the original roof. To the north-east, there is a partly demolished mill building that still contains the cast iron mill wheel. A mill associated with Downhall manor is mentioned in records from 1339.
Local climate
The Mill House and Attached Mill Buildings sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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