Lyston Mill Including Railings Enclosing Front Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Mill house.
Lyston Mill Including Railings Enclosing Front Garden
- WRENN ID
- rusted-floor-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Mill house
- Address
- Lyston Mill Including Railings Enclosing Front Garden, Liston Lane
- OS grid reference
- TL 856 449
- Coordinates
- 52.07165, 0.70766
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lyston Mill is a mill house dating from around 1797, featuring a double range design. It is constructed with a timber frame and clad in beaded weatherboard, topped with a red tiled roof and a moulded eaves cornice. The building has two storeys and a two-window range of small paned sliding sashes, complete with original shutters and pelmets above. Bargeboards adorn the gables, and there is a central four-panelled door with a moulded surround and a flat canopy. A central red brick chimney stack is also present. This site by the River Stour has housed a watermill for centuries, originally owned by the Abbots of St. Edmundsbury, with the last mill being demolished in 1887. Inside, there is notable 18th-century detail, including an alcove, corner cupboard, doors, and wainscoting. The front garden is enclosed by cast iron railings featuring urn heads on the gate posts, ornate rail heads, and arrow heads on the lower rails.
Local climate
Lyston Mill Including Railings Enclosing Front Garden sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% 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 58% 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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