Baythorne Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1976. Water mill, house. 3 related planning applications.
Baythorne Mill
- WRENN ID
- muffled-chancel-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1976
- Type
- Water mill, house
- Address
- Baythorne Mill, Mill Road, Birdbrook, CO9 4AJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 723 430
- Coordinates
- 52.0587, 0.51239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Baythorne Mill is a water mill from the 18th century that was extended in the 19th century and is now used as a house. It features painted brick in Flemish bond and is roofed with handmade red clay tiles and slates. The building is aligned northwest to southeast, with the main chimney stack located at the southeast end. At the southeast end, there is a two-storey, weatherboarded extension with a slate roof. The northwest end has a 19th-century steam engine house, which includes a tall round chimney on a square base at the rear. There is also a single-storey extension beyond the engine house that now serves as a double garage.
The mill has two storeys with attics. The main entrance includes a halved boarded door and a half-glazed door, along with one 18th-century casement window and three reproduction windows set in original arched openings. There are double boarded doors leading over the wheel-race. On the first floor, there are central 20th-century French windows that open onto a balcony, two 18th-century casement windows, and two 20th-century casement windows, all in original arched openings. The building features a string course at first-floor level, dentils under the eaves, and a gambrel roof. A boldly projecting lucom contains two 18th-century casement windows, and there are two swept dormers with 18th-century casement windows.
The southeast extension has a half-glazed door and one 20th-century casement window on each floor, along with scalloped eaves trim. The windows of the engine house are all from the 20th century. The mill wheel is still present, though not operational, and is covered with glass. Inside, the mill retains exposed beams and joists on both floors, mostly original. Most of the windows at the front and back are original, featuring hardwood frames, wrought iron casements, and rectangular leaded glazing, with some early glass. While some windows have been repaired or restored in the 20th century, a substantial set of original windows in their context is particularly valuable, as such features are becoming rare.
Local climate
Baythorne Mill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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