Barnes Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1949. Mill. 1 related planning application.
Barnes Mill
- WRENN ID
- dim-passage-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1949
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Barnes Mill, Mill Vue Road, Chelmer, CM2 6NP
- OS grid reference
- TL 726 065
- Coordinates
- 51.73079, 0.49908
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barnes Mill is a mill dating from around 1700, constructed with a timber frame and weatherboarding. It stands two storeys high with attics beneath a mansard roof. The windows have been altered due to its modern conversion into a residence. The roof is covered with peg tiles and the building has a rectangular plan. The mill once featured a breast-shot water wheel, of which the sweep still exists. The structure is framed in heavy oak and includes fine roof trusses with queen posts and elaborate bracing. The passing-braces are halved into the east and west walls. The up-and-down shaft, made of polygonal timber, is still in place and supports an octagonally canted great spur wheel with eight compass-arms. Additionally, the sack-hoist friction ring remains, also featuring compass-arms.
Local climate
Barnes 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Radon risk assessment
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