The Old Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Mill.
The Old Mill
- WRENN ID
- solitary-window-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- The Old Mill, Private Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 690 033
- Coordinates
- 51.7035, 0.44518
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Mill is a small 18th-century mill originally built in red brick with a square plan and one storey. Soon after its construction, a timber-framed wing was added on the land side. The original roof was fly-hipped with a central louvre, but it was later replaced with a ridged roof that has one hipped end. Inside, there are early 18th-century king post trusses with raking-struts, and the entire building is clad in slate. The mill was powered by a turbine, but no machinery remains.
Local climate
The Old Mill sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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