Brimpton Mill is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1967. Watermill. 1 related planning application.
Brimpton Mill
- WRENN ID
- haunted-truss-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1967
- Type
- Watermill
- Address
- Brimpton Mill, Brimpton Road, RG7 4SG
- OS grid reference
- SU 553 657
- Coordinates
- 51.38782, -1.206
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brimpton Mill is a watermill dated 1773, located on Brimpton Road. It is constructed of red brick and features a dentil brick eaves cornice beneath an old tile hipped roof. The southeast front has two hipped dormers flanking a central weatherboarded gable that contains a window, above three central bays. The building stands three storeys high with an attic and has five bays with glazing bar sashes. There are buttresses that rise to the first floor between the first and second, and third and fourth bays. The central doorway has a date stone in the tympanum of the arch above it. There are boarded doors in the right-hand bay on both the ground and first floors, while the left-hand bay on the ground floor features an arched opening.
Local climate
Brimpton Mill receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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