Blue Mills is a Grade II* listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1950. A Industrial Water mill.
Blue Mills
- WRENN ID
- deep-mantel-sedge
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1950
- Type
- Water mill
- Period
- Industrial
- Address
- Blue Mills, Wickham Bishops
- OS grid reference
- TL 830 131
- Coordinates
- 51.78697, 0.65269
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blue Mills is an early 19th-century timber-framed and weatherboarded water mill located next to the west end of the former Mill House, now known as Mathyns. It is set back from the road in a charming location, featuring a five-arched brick sluice way and a mill pond situated between the mill and the road. The building has two storeys and attics, with double-hung sash windows that have glazing bars and are set in cased frames. The roof is slate, designed in a mansard style with half hips, and includes a hoist loft on the south front. Inside, there is notable 19th-century water mill machinery, which is no longer operational but was repaired in 1949. Blue Mills, along with Blue Mills Bridge and Mathyns, creates a visually appealing group.
Local climate
Blue Mills 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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