Hertingfordbury Corn Mill is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Corn mill. 3 related planning applications.
Hertingfordbury Corn Mill
- WRENN ID
- hidden-fireplace-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Corn mill
- Address
- Hertingfordbury Corn Mill, Hertingfordbury Road, Hertford, SG14 2SB
- OS grid reference
- TL 307 121
- Coordinates
- 51.79298, -0.10625
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hertingfordbury Corn Mill is a corn mill located on Hertingfordbury Road in Hertford. It dates from the mid-19th century and underwent alterations in the early 20th century. The building is constructed of yellow-grey Cambridge gault brick in Flemish bond and features old tiled roofs with corbel band cornices and verges. It has an L-plan layout with a mill race running through the center.
The exterior consists of two and three storeys with attics. The first floor has five bays, with loft doors in the first and third bays and windows in the second, fourth, and fifth bays, all set beneath double header segmental arches. The ground floor features cast-iron windows in the first and fourth bays, and doors in the second and fifth bays. A central hoist loft is supported by timber brackets and is weatherboarded over timber framing, topped with a gabled old tile roof.
Inside, the mill has a cast-iron structure with columns that have bell caps and flanges, and a seven-bay north wing. At the time of inspection, the mill wheel was still in place, featuring a horizontal drive with geared controls above. There are also a drier and dresser, corn bins, and chutes in the loft, along with a heavy queen strut and purlin roof.
Hertingfordbury Mill was operational until 1933, but it is currently used only for storage.
Local climate
Hertingfordbury Corn Mill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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