The Old Watermill is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. A C18 Mill. 1 related planning application.
The Old Watermill
- WRENN ID
- frozen-niche-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1987
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- The Old Watermill, Mill Lane, Weston-On-The-Green, OX25 3QR
- OS grid reference
- SP 529 186
- Coordinates
- 51.86395, -1.23226
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Watermill is a mill and millhouse dating from the 18th century, which was converted in the 20th century. It is constructed from limestone rubble with wooden lintels and some squared quoins, topped with an artificial stone-slate roof and rebuilt brick stacks. The building is a single range with two storeys plus an attic. The millhouse features a wide doorway flanked by two low renewed casements, and on the first floor, there are three larger renewed casements. To the left, the mill has an additional entrance with a glazed loading doorway above, and two garage doors that have been formed from the tail-race openings, with a small casement above. The roof includes three hipped roof dormers and stacks above the house, as well as a lower dormer over the mill. At the rear, the brick-arched head-race opening is still intact. Inside, there are chamfered beams and a butt-purlin roof.
Local climate
The Old Watermill 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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