Kingsbury Mill is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Mill. 4 related planning applications.

Kingsbury Mill

WRENN ID
silver-portal-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1971
Type
Mill
Address
Kingsbury Mill, St Michael's Street, AL3 4SJ
OS grid reference
TL 138 074
Coordinates
51.75461, -0.35237
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Kingsbury Mill is a complex of late 17th century and 18th century buildings located on St Michael's Street. The main mill building, situated on the right, is two storeys high with a gabled end facing the road. It features a high-pitched tiled roof, weatherboarded gable, and a brick facade with a string course at the first floor and a substantial brick plinth. There are two 2-light casement windows in flush box frames under segmental brick arches on each floor, along with a central loading door on the first floor and a Dutch door below. Inside, the roof includes arch-braced tie beams, queen posts, and collar beams. A mill race flows under the tiled building, with the wheel positioned laterally in the center. The old loading and grinding machinery appears to be complete.

To the left, there is an 18th century section that is also two storeys high, featuring three windows under twin gables, which adjoins the main mill. This section has a moderately pitched tiled roof, weatherboarded gables, and a red brick front decorated with diaper and diamond patterns of blue headers. It also has a brick string course at the first floor and a brick plinth. The sash windows, which have glazing bars (except for one modern window on the first floor left), are in flush box frames under shallow segmental brick arches. There is a later door at the center of the ground floor, and several weatherboarded extensions are present at the rear.

Local climate

Kingsbury Mill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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