Swallow Mill Swallow Mill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. Watermill.
Swallow Mill Swallow Mill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rough-footing-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Watermill
- Address
- Swallow Mill Swallow Mill Farmhouse, Pluckley Road, Little Chart
- OS grid reference
- TQ 933 469
- Coordinates
- 51.18917, 0.7661
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swallow Mill, formerly known as Swallow Mill Farmhouse, is an 18th-century watermill located on Pluckley Road in Little Chart. The building stands three storeys high and is faced with white weatherboarding, resting on a base of red brick. It features a tiled roof with an eaves cornice. The west front has a mix of casement windows, horizontally-sliding sash windows, and swivel windows, all retaining their glazing bars. The east front includes horizontally-sliding sash windows and ordinary double-hung sash windows, also with intact glazing bars. An enormous water-wheel is situated in the southern half of the structure.
Local climate
Swallow Mill Swallow Mill Farmhouse 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 87% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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