Hartford End Mill is a Grade II* listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. Watermill. 2 related planning applications.
Hartford End Mill
- WRENN ID
- other-forge-rowan
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- Watermill
- Address
- Hartford End Mill, Great Waltham, CM3 1JZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 685 173
- Coordinates
- 51.8291, 0.44447
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hartford End Mill is a late 18th-century watermill located on the River Chelmer. It is two storeys tall with an attic, featuring a flat-headed dormer and a gabled, weatherboarded lucam topped with a weathervane. The mill has a red plain tiled gambrel roof that is hipped to the right, along with a rear wing. The building is primarily constructed of red brick, with some weatherboarding on the left side.
The first floor has a range of seven windows, while the ground floor has five, with various small-paned casements and sashes, some made of iron. Above a board door that is off centre on the first floor, there is a hoist beam and three circular iron tie bar plates. A bowed, round-headed window is situated above a "stable" door. The bays on the extreme right are used as a dwelling, featuring a door set in a round-headed opening. An exterior sluice, made by Whitmore & Binyan of Wickham Market in 1881, is also present. The mill shares a combined frontage with the Mill House and Bridge, both of which are listed separately, creating a picturesque group in a pleasant setting.
Local climate
Hartford End Mill 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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