Slip Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. Mill and mill house. 9 related planning applications.
Slip Mill House
- WRENN ID
- ruined-bonework-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- Mill and mill house
- Address
- Slip Mill House, Slip Mill Road, Hawkhurst, TN18 5AB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 755 313
- Coordinates
- 51.05467, 0.50332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Slip Mill House is an 18th-century mill and mill house located on Slip Mill Road, Hawkhurst. The building is timber framed with weatherboard cladding above a painted brick ground floor. It has plain tiled roofs and a hipped roof with stacks positioned to the left and right. The two-storey front features two tripartite sash windows on the first floor, and bays with windows on the ground floor, with a central boarded door set within moulded pilastered surrounds. Hipped ranges extend to the rear.
To the left, a projecting two-storey and attic former mill building has two gabled dormers. The first floor has two glazing bar sash windows, while the ground floor features segmentally-headed casements with half-doors, and a central glazed fanlight. A gabled rear range is also present.
Remains of a decahedral water wheel and its associated wheel-pit, along with some machinery, are still visible. The mill operated from at least the late 16th century to the 19th century, run by the Ayerst family, who were also connected to Holmans and Primrose Hill nearby. Late 20th-century glazing bar sash windows have been incorporated into the front elevation.
Local climate
Slip Mill House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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