The Black Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1976. House. 1 related planning application.
The Black Mill
- WRENN ID
- vacant-lime-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brentwood
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Black Mill, Princes Road, Navestock, CM14 5RN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 558 969
- Coordinates
- 51.64945, 0.25188
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Black Mill is a 19th-century steam mill, later converted into a house, located in Navestock. The building is timber-framed with softwood, primarily braced construction, and is clad in weatherboards, with a slate roof. It is two storeys high with attics. A central wrought-iron weather vane is present. All gables feature ornamental barge boards, and the north gable of the main block has a projecting gabled hoist loft. The upper floor remains unaltered. A lower gabled wing projects from the main block at the east end. A long, single-storey range of weatherboarded outbuildings with pantiled roofs extends around a yard to the east. Internally, two cast-iron stanchions support the first floor; these are said to have originally been a single stanchion, later cut in half. The mill forms a group with the adjacent granary.
Local climate
The Black Mill sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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