Watermill is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. Watermill. 3 related planning applications.
Watermill
- WRENN ID
- iron-step-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Watermill
- Address
- Watermill, Barton Mill Road, CT1 1BP
- OS grid reference
- TR 155 588
- Coordinates
- 51.28782, 1.09045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is the only surviving medieval watermill within the city. The ground floor retains early 13th-century stonework and flintwork, and the roof is of medieval origin, but the structure was largely rebuilt in the early 19th century. The watermill bridges the River Stour, and is four storeys high, with weatherboarded cladding. The second floor projects outward on brackets, and features five to six pivoting sash windows. It is set upon brick and stone piers, with a wooden railing. The end elevation displays hoists. The watermill forms a group with Lesser Knowlesthorpe, Nos 3 and 4.
Local climate
Watermill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- 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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